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1907. Cement House (D-07-07)
This folder contains correspondence relating to the widely publicized
development of Edison's poured concrete house. Most of the material consists
of unsolicited inquiries regarding the unique nature, quick construction, and low
cost of the projected house. Also included is correspondence with journalists
seeking information and with paint companies supplying tints for the cement.
There are a few letters from the manufacturer and philanthropist, Henry Phipps,
who expressed an interest in Edison's progress. Many of the items contain
Edison marginalia, usually indicating that a prepared circular be sent in
response.
Less than 10 percent of the documents have been selected. With the
exception of a few samples, unsolicited inquiries have not been selected.
Related material in the collections of the Edison National Historic Site
includes The Housing Handbook by W. Thompson (London, 1903), inscribed
to Edison in 1907 and containing Edison marginalia throughout.
In Re #91.
Hay 21, 1907,
*A\ANNG?MACNEILLE*ARCHITECTS-
.2 EAST 33RD. ST.
.NEW YORK.
Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Orange, H. J.
Dear Sir:
>>v
According to the arrangement when we were last at your
laboratory, we are sending you under separate cover drawings of
the four elevations of the concrete house.
The model can be made either the exact size of the drawings
o.r twice the size, according to your desire. The lettered scale
of of an inch equals one foot".,, means that three quarters of an
inch on our drawings would equal one foot on the large house
that you would ultimately build, and does not refer to the scale
of the model.
The front elevation has been drawn in detail, but as
the side elevations and rear elevation are simply a repetition
of the different features of ornament that appear on the front , we
have not drawn these out completely, but have simply indicated
them in outline. .
If your modeler needs any further drawings we would be
glad to make them, or if he wants verbal explanations we would
gladly go out to Orange to talk the thing over.
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NEW YORK OFFICE, No.l BEEKMAN STREET.
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BAYARO WIGHT
Hr. Ihomas A. Edison,
Orange, IT, J.
Bear Sirs-
Begarding yoi
houses, yoxi are report^
as follows:
"Of bourse L
house. It iW^riia:
one the ri
kind of oono l&te, asu
with twisted ■EroiT'ri^
tio pro duo t
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and has huilt a num§er""o:
Hew Xork, Ootoher 22, 1907.
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- -f oonorete residences, anA-far “
f^Tn^fel ^
oonstruoti^fe^^^UM^ie Edison^md of oement ex-
At Haworth,’ H, J, , where we are operating,
the company owning the bulk of the land is anxious to
develop oonorete construction for working-men’s homes
and otherwise. We will be glad to be informed at onoe
SBNfERAt, CONTRACTORS
ADO
©eawkrs s» Bwbubin® Matshia^s
as to the terms upon which we oan use your
invention, and as to further praotioal details
about it.
We send you herewith photograph repro-
duotions of two of the oonorete houses built by ...
us at Haworth for the Franklin Society. of Hew
York. There are others. M early reply will
be appreciated by
Yours very truly,
Secretary- Treasurer.
In Re #
Thomas A. .Edison, Esq.,
Orange, If. J. t ^ - tt w
Dear 3ir: l
iVe copy below a letter just received from the scientific
American, f/e will be very glad to furnish them with the drawings
they ask for and write to know if you could give us some facts
that might add to the interest of the article.
"Messrs. Mann & HacJTeille, Oct. 22-07.
Gentlemen:
It is asserted in the daily press that vou
are designing some concrete houses for Thomas A. Edison,
which are to be built in a very short time. This sub¬
ject is one which both the Editor of the "scientific
American and of "American Homes and Gardens" are in¬
terested in, and we, therefore, ask whether it is not
possible to obtain from you plans of the new structures
as well as data for an article. Naturally full credit
will he given to the architects of the houses.
Thanking you for whatever courtesy you
may extend to us, we are
Eaithfully yours,
Kunn & Co. "
Yours very truly,
eastkAjN ob’P’ic
2 BROADWAY,
_ THE ^
Cement Era
. PRIME ICIKITB’BJR
1907
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Iwriting to ask if it will be convert-
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this or gext week, in order to talk to you regarding
ttttX2fflZ£L2oy£
and specification and also moulds. We would/like
to use a very complete descriptive article in) the
CEMENT ERA. I enclose stamped envelope for reply
and trust that I may have the pleasure of calling
upon you.
Yours very truly .
Eastern Manage
' THE CEMENT ERA
Mr Thomas A Edison
Orange N J
tasmsS^M..
IVEiller R.eese Hutchison
CONSULTING AND DESIGNING
ELECTRICAL- MECHANICAL ENGINEER
COMMERCIAL AUTOMOBILE EXPERT
SUITE 0035
METROPOLITAN LUTE BUILDING
No. 1 MADISON AVENUE
NEW YORK
Referring to our interview with you relative to t:
yi reducer {-as for cer.er.t burning, we beg to send enc-lo
calculation shewing the thermo chemical conditions.
If you desire any further infomstion, we will he
to send you sane.
Yours sincerely,
31,1907
Py
[ENCLOSURE]
BYROMETRIC EFEHSOT .
The temperature of the coal dust flams was determined and found
to he not higher than 2150 degrees B. The clinkering temperature
'in the cement kiln is 2700 0. The increase of temperature required
is furnished by the heat, of combination.
The combustion products of producer gas of average composition
( vol |||
14.12 0 0
■ 20 ,23 Hj.
1.59 0 H41
9.06 0 0
55.00 H
ft.- 2036 B.T.U. per lb.
combine during the burning process with 1251 lbs. of 0 Oa , and
151 lbs. of water for every ton of clinkers.
Assuming an initial telperature of 0° , and oonsidnraing that
iaSi IDS. of gas are generating 1962 X 2036 equal 399400 B.T.U.
the maximum temperature which ws can get with the mixture of the
products of combustion and the t! 0 A and water from the crude mass
is as follows!
t = 2100° B
972 ( 8.3 + 0.00367 t ) -W15 .27 ,
44 ^28 *
224 ( 761 + 0.00328 t )
18
and t* + 4248 t = 6420560
Hence we have t = 1150° C
Thence we see that the producer gas flame is at least cf the
same temperature as the coal dust flame. We have not considered the
preheating of the combustion air in any of these cases, talcing both
under exactly the same conditions. The clinker leaves the furnace
at about 2160° C, the coal drum at 212
jsl\
52 J
( 6.8 + 0.0006 t ) +
[ENCLOSURE]
Therefore one ton of clinker yields to the cooling dm and
to the cooling air current •
1000 x 0.2 x 1100 =: 83000 B.T.U,
After deducting the losses which amount to about 40$, ; v.a see
that we have at our disposal 528000 Calorie.
Now the quantity of air required for burning one ton of
clinker .is about 2750 lbs., arid its specif io heat under these con¬
ditions is 0.246 '
Therefore the waste heat of the clinker at our dispoaal if
fully utilized, will increase the temperature ' of 'the combustion air
810° F.
which, as we know is sufficient to start the chemical reaction and
to cause the c lingering of the cement mass .
It has to be also considered that the producer, gas fire works
with about • 1/5 of the amount of air as compared to the coal- dust
firing, a point which must not be overlooked, in the construction of
such plants, .
The thermo chemical calculation in- practical experiments:
show that . 100 lbs. of blinker can. be! produced by ’converting; 18 lbs,
of. coal of 13680 B.T.U.into gas.
If you are interested we will be pleased to send you, detail',
calculation for these -figures. „ • ... ,
JTimfam (Hcntnt^
Superintending Architect's Department.
mj.s.w
-8 NOV 1907 -/.9d.
Dear Sir,
My attention has heen d^awn to the aooount given by
you at the meeting of the American Eleotro-Chemioal Sooiety on
18th October, 1907, of an inversion which you think will enable
dwellings for workmen and oths^s of that class to be erected
■ing iron mouldB and filling them
toil has ereoted under my
wellings for workmen and are
■struotlon. I should
you would be so kind as to
Particulars of the system
rto the American Eleotro-Chemioal
very oheaply by means of pre;
with concrete.
The London Counf
supervision a great number
interested in aheap buildi
therefore bp greatly obligfjj
furnish me with any publish
which you explained recent 1
2
Sooiety. ,
M
, Dear Sir,
Yours faithfully.
Superintending Architect.
Thomas A.Edison, Esq.,
“ G-lenmoat,
Llewellyn Park,
Robertson Art Tile Co.
WALL. FLOOR AND FIRE PLACE TILE
OH KVRIIY DRHOIMPTION.
TRENTON, N. ,Tm liOV. 12,(^1907.
Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
Orange,
1L.T.
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Bear Sir: -
steol moulds, of which I^ia\
illustrations
U> fcZ&t C(ac.
Permit me to addness^you in refergn^ to ^te/'CV'n
project of erecting huildrajjja^f ^cor^cr^e w’^ten^
I Jiave seen some, accounts' an<j<'*
to tful Cm k*> 5
i in various newspapers. /
I have taken some interest in the mural treat¬
ment of exterior and interior walls of such buildings for
years and my enthusiasm for this work may furnish my
excuse for making hold enough to address you.
While the constructive qualities of a concrete
building cannot he questioned, it must he admitted that the
natural color of the cement has never heen found satis¬
factory, especially as the cement is subject to certain
discolorations caused by occasional dampness. The efforts
to relieve a building in a decorative sense by, sculpture
or plastic ornament has not met with success on account
of the inability to fasten them securely to the surface
and it has been admitted by the best Architects that the
concrete house of the future must be decorated in a
polychrome manner.
I have done
very satisfactory work by
Robertson Art Tile Oo.
WALL. FLOOR AND FIRE PLACE TILE
T . A. J*< . fa . Trenton, N. ,T..
using a vitreous ceramic mosaic for the veneering of
walls and I heg to send several pamphlets which show wall
treatment of exteriors and interiors. The advantages of
a vitreous ceramic mosaic are its cheapness, great
durability and absolute iraperviousness as far as water
absorption is concerned.
So far I have applied this mosaic after the
wall has been constructed, but it seems to me that the
mosaic may be applied in friezes or panels during the
construction of a building, especially if a dorfect mould
to which the mosaic is applied, is obtainable. This
latter is apparently the case in your project.
Should you think it worth while to confer with
me on the subject, I shall be pleased to meet you or who
ever you would refer me to, if you will be so kind as
to let me know time and place.
Thanking you for any kind consideration you give
these matters, I remain,
Yours very truly,
MGR .
ROBERTSON ART TILE CO.
AmiHRiimOHM
FBH-G
Mr. Thomas A, Edison,
West
Dear Sir:-
I read with absorl
appearing in the "Hew Yorki
relating to your plans for <
W a.
Orange, H. i_jj£ *1^ ^
Y~ J__
ifessir-^So tdH*
/<7tA^ C!«» - -
(signing cast-iron-moulds, J
hy use of which concrete houses may he molded. ,
yjbcSvdL} ijg- tcCnA iT&o b-fd
in includes^peveral memhers
Our organization 3
several memoers /> a
personally -not
/fllU -%SeSS»W«.« WA-
ana the Executives!
.evfft-e okiw-k-^ f
delight for years, -
who have been privileged to to^iw yo^
only in this country, but inCftpada, ,
of our company have followed you eagerly and with .
And now comes this fy>v&l and practical method
We predict that shortly your scheme will -J--
revolutionize the method of building homeaj^eap eo^Lal ly
those of the "good common peopJp(^*"^ /J tf ac^ ^
voi**, lu*. «
The nature of our products exacts of us
,j^jT
and in methods
i in the designing of patterns
of moulding, for all of our castings are hollow- with
equal metal lineB, and must withstand the strain of
constantly varying temperatures.
jpRIGMpIATORrO.ttPAW
Mr. Thomas B. Edison- #2
Thus I feel that we are in a sense
qualified to appreciate the value and importance
of your proposed method of casting a one-piece-
house.
Among the refinements which shall
mark the details of construction of this model
house, such as the hath- tubs, stairs, etc.,-
may I submit for your favorable consideration,
the feasibility of providing either a series
of vertical recesses in the side walls of the
rooms- or a corresponding number of small
vertical flues or holes in the side walls:-
these grooves or flues to receive the flow
and return piping of a steam or hot water
heating system, and thus conceal them from
view, whereas now - in most houses - the flow
and return pipes are projected into the room
and Eire very unsatisfactory.
It may be you have this in mind-
and perhaps in addition^ the designing of a
radiator of unusual form that will also be
set - flush- (as it were) - in the wall,
with but its iniide surface or room surface
exposed.
Mr. Thomas A. Edison- #5
I would esteem it greatly
if you would kindly say if this series of
recesses or flues are- in your judgment - prac¬
tical- and desirable.
7fl7 Fifth Avenue,
New York, Nov. 13th, 1907.
My dear Mr Edisoni-
Many thanks for your kind attentions
yesterday to my friends and myself. We enjoyed very much
seeing you, and learning more of the good work you have in
hand in respect to concrete construction.
If it is proper for us to make a suggestion we would
beg to say that wo wish the liberal experiment you are about
to make were done on a smaller scale, and a simpler house,
so as to save you money, and a good deal of care and trouble
as well, and to aid the good cause which you especially, and
the rest of us, have at heart.
Please pardon the suggestion we have made, and
believe me.
Yours sincerely,
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Mr. Thomas A. Edison, <=*~~
c/o Edison Portland Cement Oo.,^^ ^ \
Stewart sville, N. J. Au* 5,
■Dear Sir:- ouu-^^r'jX- 2
The enclosed clipping has heBrT’floating around in'I'T
V\.jrv<- 04 i <U-v^ Q & *'**‘‘1
different journals and I take the liberty of addre s s iji h.„V ou on)
CfjO «!>/. £tT\
the subject of concrete mixers in connection herewith. I seU
(J , WijKWw <S~c-
the name of Henry Phipps, concerned in the .matter and would
like to call your attention to the fact that Mr. Phipps, ^
through his agent, Mr. Naylor, purchased from me under date of
October 1902, one No- 2-1/2 Smith Concrete Mixer on truck with
Stewart sville, N. J.
different journals i
boiler and engine complete.
i enclosing you under separate cover.
Mr. Naylor has used this <
all of Mr. Phipps' Const¬
ruction work in and around this city and has put in thousands and
thousands of yards of concrete with very little expense for
repairs on the same, and under date of October 14th, 1903, he
says the following in regard to the machine, viz: — "I take
great pleasure in recommending the Smith Mixer for concrete
work. I have laid about 5000-yards of concrete with this mixer
in the last three months and by having had these experiences
with the Mixer X can cheerfully say that it is THE BEST MIXER
THAT CAN BE BOUGHT."
He is just as enthusiastic to-day about the maohine
and the advantages of owning it. I therefore am sanding you a
Thomas A. Edison, . . . . .
-(B)-
°°py of our catalogue, together with a hook containing copies
of a number of letters received from persons who are using the
machine and would like very much to have you look up the Smith
Mixer and it's record when the time comes.
Thanking you in advance for any reply and hoping to
hear from you favorably, I remain,
Yours
EGP-K-Enc.
[ENCLOSURE]
MAY BUILD A
CONCRETE CITY
Henry Phipps and Other Rich
, Men May Erect a Town
i ... : Near New York.
Scientific American
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jvn/WiV sc co/ m/a
" 16, 1907.
/
Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
West Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir:--
I am today sending you, i
marked copy of the Scientific Americas
"Concrete Houses", that is the outcome of the interview you gave r
some ten days ago, appears.
Trusting that this article nysets with your approval, I f
Very respectfully yours,
pder separate cover, ,
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C. FELLOWES . Secretary,
«J.H. BRADFORD. TVrnsur.
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November 16th, 1907.
Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Dear Sir
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I have read in the papers wj.th. vepr great ^.ntgjgegt
the accounts of the experiments you have been. conducting in the I a
^ray«' ctftCKT £A*.vre.v ■**.£'
building of houses of concrete. "* We are contemplating the w
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erection of some new stables at oun race trfcck at Sheepshead,
V) oU.m e«» cv. S’ts-vv*^ e*.
with concrete. OUr only.
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anxiety is lest it might prove damp, perhaps sweaty, and not /■
CMtAoT f*'£
altogether suitable and healthy for race houses. < I appre->-~-Vl,
U t^e 4
ciate the fact that as an entire stranger -go you perponally^I^ ( V
have no claim upon your very valuable time., but at youn conveni ^
Aut uur. C-ive~ <* <8 * *
to soine one compejient to advise me
em it a very great favor. _ Yhur
ence, if you could refer me
in this matter I should esti
opinion as to a stable built of concrete being thoijtfughly dry
would mean very much.
Yours truly,
V
Robertson Art Tire Co.
WALL. FLOOR AND FIRE PLACE TILE
trkxtox, n. .t., Nov. 20, 1907
Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
Orange, N.J.
Dear Sir: -
We bee to acknowledge receipt of your esteemed
favor of the 18th and shall await your further pleasure
in the matter of applying decorative tile to cement
houses.
The writer shall be at your disposal whenever
you wish to take the matter up > and hopes to be able to
assist you.
Thanking you for your kind consideration, we
are,
Yours very 'truly,
ELECTRICAL WORLD
Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Edison Laboratory,
Orarage, k. J.
Dear Mr. Edison: (~~l
I beg to return herewith the Phipps matter which you
were kind enough to let me have on Monday afternoon.
I would say that I have written a long letter to Mr.
Pranks and sent him some of the material, with the object and in
the hope of helping along the model cement village of the future.
I should be greatly obliged if j.fr. Randolph could
return to me for Mr. Pranks the letter from Mr. Phipps to Mr.
Pranks which I sent you about ten days ago. Mr. Pranks wishes to
keep this for his files.
Yours truly,
Kovember 20, 1907.
a A CONCRETE |
Wall System’/ TbUILD1N6 BLOCKS J
Mom amKimmiiK
OFFICER FACTORY BOLTON AVENUE ^NICKEL PLATE R.R. ^
.November 30, 1907.
Mr. Thomas A. Edison, SirfO Cwcn«l«
Orange, New Jersey* w T^0 T*
u* Vu.o-£>. tyKt! VaCJCv'wJ^1*
near Sir— (prv«w-* .
As the manager of the 'above company and from the
fact that I have made a close study' of "concrete In all its
phases and possibilities, X have read with a great deal of
interest accounts of the work you are doing along this part¬
icular line of business, and particularly have I been in¬
terested in your patent for making a house complete in a simgle
mold, monolithic construction and I would like to ask how you
purpose keeping out the moisture.
It has been my experience in working with concrete
as a Building material that the moisture feature and the
appearence have been the two most important features as- well
as the most difficult to attain.
Yfe have here in Cleveland one of the most com¬
pletely equipped and largest concrete factories in the country
making all kinds of ooncrete work necessary to go in any style
of Building and we are also closely . allied with a firm
doing the most extensive reinforced concrete work in the
country. We are operating under what t is known- as the two
piece system with which you are no doubt familiar and which
to my mind is the only system that permits of the entire
exclusion of all moisture from the Inside walls.
As stated above, from reading accounts of your work
in this line, my curiosity has been aroused as to just what
you expect to get in the appearance of your Building and more
particularly hbwt you propose to counteract the moisture feature.
The thought struck me that in answering my request for inform¬
ation in this regard, I might in turn be able to give you some
points that woiild be valuable for you as you know that concrete
is a onmparitively new proposition to all of us and I am at
all times anxlouB to learn all that is possible to be learned,
to improve the manufacturing and construction and I have no
doubt you take .the same view X do.
OFFICER FACTORY BOLTON AVENUE a&NICKEL PLATE R.R.
Hover, ber SO, 190V.
Mr. Thomas A. Edison— #3.
Hoping that I may be able to hear firm you along the
lines as per above request,
Yours ver/ truly,
The Cuyahoga Concrete sime Oo.
By—
Secretary ftTreasurer.
In the evolution of nan adornment comes
last. Hature begins with small things and works up to
man, and so in building these houses, let us begin on the
simplest and cheapest plan.
In my experience in iron manufacturing,
it was the rule that big concerns, i. e., thOBe that sprung
into life in large size, failed. It was the little
manufacturer that became a Carnegie.
I am anxious to see your work demonstrated,
however oraull the house may bo so that it is suitable for
ooeupanoy. I fully appreciate what yon are doing, and
am most eager for the best results.
The subject is a large one, and if you
can spare the time for Mr. Atterbury, Mr, Gordon and Mr.
Maok to see you and consult, I shall be muoh gratified.
There is an unexpended stun of §200,000.00
of the Phipps Tenement Fund which I would like to use, if
the Board approves, in oopying houses that have proved
themselves to be the kind we want. Later on we can
build for the better wage earner.
My associates may suggest something
that may be useful, of course bearing in mind your idea
of the steel mouldB, which is most valuable.
I enolose herewith a letter from Mr.
C. ilayo of Milwaukee. I do not know whether it would
interest yon to begin a correspondence with him, or if
you would tell me if there is any answer you would oare
to have me make to him.
If you can go into the subjeot with my
friends, will you kindly appoint a time that would be oon-
(3)
venient to you, and oblige.
Yours very truly
C/L-y.
a
Thos. A. Edison, Esq. ,
Orange, Hew Jersey.
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had resulted in a systematic rheumatio contagion to the inmates of
the house who in turn performed the kitohen service.
Sow this condition is not inherent in the nature of con¬
crete, hut it does result from a lack of ventilation, coupled with
dampness, and it is to this phase of the subject that I thought I
of 3lmwa: loari of (Hontrol of f»tatp ilnstituttona
(Edison) (2)
might he permitted to call attention. My experience is that the
, capillary attraction in concrete walls is immense. So that it seems
to me that the foundations should he provided with a damp-proof
course, and the exterior surface of the walls helow the ground line
should he well coated with dehydratine, or better damp-resisting coat¬
ings. Then the exterior walls will also need treatment to prevent
rain from saturating the walls, The inside also should he coated
with dehydratine, over which a finish of oork carpet, Bultahly glued
in place and decorated, would form a good non-conducting surface.
The next important step would he the floor treatment. Eor kitchens,
sculleries, baths, toilets, rear halls, closets, etc., a finely-
troweled oement floor will surely suffice. Treated with oil and par¬
affin, polished, such a floor need not he unsanitary if only the
cellar beneath is dry and warm in winter, which it naturally will he
from the wanning apparatus located there, and during summer months
open windows in both the lower and upper apartments will prevent
Berious dampness, hut the top surface should he treated as suggested
to prevent absorption. The balance of floors, those in hall, li¬
brary and general living rooms could well he finished with a cement
or tile border and a polished, hard wood center, though a cemented-
over-all floor with heavy rugs reaching well to all the walls would
surely he an efficient and esthetic*! treatment that would satisfy
the most fastidious.
A oement house thus treated would not only he strictly
fireproof, hut sanitary and healthful throughout, and I .h.n he
of Soma: Hoarii of Qlootrol of Sootitittions
(Edison) (3)
glad when such become the rule, not only in New York City hut through¬
out the land, for I believe the fire hazard will he greatly reduoed
as well as the death-rate which now obtains in the congested tene¬
ment environments, where not only the walls and floors become unsan¬
itary but the very atmosphere becomes pointed by the foul eminations
from the living cesspool-like habitations.
In all probability the above from ray pen is perfeotly su¬
perfluous as your architects have in all probability canvassed all
these points; still I am constrained to send you this just to show
you that there are professional men who are not only watching you,
but one intensely interested as well.
Wishing you abundant success, I am,
Very truly yours,
"AMIS III CAN SYSTEM”
FIIIK PROOF FLOOR S « PARTITION S , WALT* CONSTRUCTION, FOUNDATIONS ,
RETAININO WALLS, BRIDGES ,ETC.
UNION BUILDING,
Mr. Thomas A, Eaison^j
Orange, I. J.
Dear Sir:-
As a part of the
whioh you have possibly heard, there has been installed on the eleventh
floor of the Brunwick Building, 25th Street and Fifth Avenue, a permanent
exhibition of the adaptations of Portland Oement to building constructions
and allied industries. While the exhibition is not yet oomplete, it never¬
theless represents the industry in a very thorough manner ana 1 think you
will be very much interested in what is shown there. On Wednesday next,
the 11th last., we are going to have as special visitors, member of the
Amerioan Association of Portland Cement Manufacturers who will be in session
in Hew York On that aey. They will visit our rooms between three and six
fw MV' 1 want to especially invite you and your friends to visit our exhi¬
bition on that day. You will find much to interest you there and it should
be of interest to you also to meet the makers of Portland oement and the
member s of our association and its mission. Will you not do the writer
the favor to oall upon us on that day?
Yours very truly,
AMERICAS C0H03ETE-STEEI. CO..
lUniBttBKein’.Ae Deoember 7, 1907.
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can aond mo tho addroso of eomo ono who makos a buisness of 'building
roonforced cement houses for laborers . If there is no one v/ho
rnkos a specialty of this, would you bo so kind and send me tho
formula, as I would like to construct a couple of cottages this
winter on my place at Glon Cove, Long Island, with a view of
entertaining tho idea of next fall building for myself there a
largo establishment of tho same material, .if this is practicable.
Kindly also state whether frost will provent proper construction .
trusting you arc enjoying tho beat of health, I am
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AGENTS FOR MATTESON PAINT COMPANY.
Chicago doo. is, 1907.
Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
Orange, If. J.
Dear Sirs
Replying to your kind favor of December 13th beg to quote the
following prioes and are sending the following samples under separate cover:
#10 Mortar Rad - $16.00 per ton
#73 Hanna English Venetian Rod - 14.00 " "
#66 Star Sllioa - 16.00 " «
#13 American Venetian Red- - 10.00 " "
#16 Cooksons English Venetian Red — 16.50 " »
#4 Purple Iron Paint - 17.00 » "
These prioes are F. 0. B. Chicago, oarlots, straight or assorted,
paoked in barrels. TormB 60 days net, or 2jS for oash in 10 days.
Please advise your results when using these oolors in Portland
Cement, and greatly oblige
Yours very truly,
HANNA & ANDROS MFC. CO.
Diot. E.I.P.
FOREIGN DEPARTMENT
NATIONAL PHONDERAPH CO.
EDISON MANUFACTURING CD.
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10 Fifth Avenue.
:toscopes NEW YORK.N.Y.
Mr. J, F, Randolph, Treasurer,
National Phonograph Co, ,
Orange, New Jersey,
Dear Sirj-
I quote as follows
Aspandiar, Kalkadevi Road,
"I have read in^the papers
just made a new invention of
of moulds. I 3hall. be much
ffie know what this invention
very rauchiTyou will supply m
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Manager Foreign Department,
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SPECULATORS & BROKERS IN CITY & SUBURBAN
REAL ESTATE and INSURANCE
TELEPHONE, 48»l BBKKMAN 150 NA8SAU STilEET SUITA IM0-1TU
December 19th. 1907. '
Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
Orange, M. g.
Dear Sir : -
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We called on you s ometimeya^ln^'e^erenoe^_ jeg^rln^a license ^
build your cement houses, afte^howing ua^the jn&el. and details you
informed us if we could organ! JPhi company with fl35 .^OoTfcM.ital*' an^aS^*^^
/Of«^4 tc^elLw-U-*~«*ws- tfcicf co-«9*A^d
nof rfoubt wBjnd ^jrant us same, Eecentlyjve
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to use the best materials you ;
• architect .Toseph Stretch
ch to your labortoi
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detail of construction of these houses , withtheobject
full charge should we secure the lfcej
houses was most enthusiastic, theref orV i
report i
rrite ashing you for sdicense for
Long island, if possible we would like to secure an exclusive license for th£.
that territory for from four to five years as we desire to be the first in th
the field to build the same.
Will you kindly \vrite us a letter covering these facts with a promise,
that if every thing is satisfactory; you will grant same. This letter will
assist us materially in securing the capital necessary for the docpmpany.
With a letter of this kind from you we will guarantee to have the <
organized and ready for business within one month.
Hoping to receive, a favorable reply, we remain, Respectfully yours,
IJYCOLW REALTY COMPANY,
c ompany
NEWARK, t
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GLOBE ANILINE WORKS
Dec. 19/37
Mi’, Thomas A. Edison,
Orango, N. O'.
Dear Sir: •*
Referring to your letter of the 16th inst. addressed to our
Newark works requosting samples of alcohol, benaol and turpentine soluble
colors, our works have nont you various samples for which v/e beg ’to quote
prices liorov/ith.
We hope that, you will find those colors suitable for your
requirements and tliat we may bo favored with your orders in the near future
Yours truly,
The Heller & Merz Cb.
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Samples separate
Oil Re* BBB63 ® 70/
Oil Yellov/ y«74G3. . . .50/. .
Oil Black #«G03 .... .40/
Spirit Black W II.... 50/
Spirit Uhrysoidimi Y. .55/
Spirit Blue B1242 . . , 90/
pqr lb, iri 100 lb. kegs fob Newark
iii caps from 1 lb. upwards 5/ per lb. additional.
December 23, 1907.
Thos.A. Edison, Esq.,
Llewellyn Park,
.. Orange, N. J.
My dear Sir:-
. . .Complying with your suggestion, I communicated. to
Mr. John I. Beggs your desire to see him in connection with your
"concrete houses," to which he replied as follows: "I shall be
very glad indeed to be able, to take a few hours sometime when I am
in New York and visit Mr. Edison at his laboratory, and I certainly
shall do so, as I have not seen him to talk to for several years."
Wishing you and yours A Merry Christmas and A Happy
New Year, I remain,
Yours, very truly,
Chicago Dec. se, 1007.
Thomas A. Edison,
Orange, N, J,
Dear Sir:
Replying to your favor of December 31st, we herewith enolose
sample of D. VI. Yellow OoJjre. Can quote price of $13.00 per ton, F. 0. B.
Chioago, oarlots straight or assorted, packed in barrels; torms 60 days
net or 2$ for oash in 10 days. Regret to advise we do not handle
Blue and Green.
Are pleased to be advised the Red works well and would like to
receive your valued orders.
Trusting to hoar from you in 60 days regarding the strength
tests on the Cement, we beg to remain
Yours very truly.
1907. Edison, T.A. - General (D-07-08)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to a
variety of subjects. Included are documents that deal with more than one
subject or that do not fall under the main subject categories in the Document
File. Among the items for 1 907 are a photograph request from Henry Ford and
letters regarding Edison's insurance, health, and charitable donations, as well
as loans to Edward H. Johnson. Also included are letters from longtime Edison
associates Samuel Insull, Thomas C. Martin, and Frank J. Sprague.
All of the documents have been selected except for duplicates.
[FROM WILLIAM E. GILMORE?]
Jan. 9, 1907 .
Mr. Samuol Insull,
c/o Holland House,
jTq’.v York.
My 'dear In3Ull:
I received come time after 9 o'clock this morning
your telegram reading as follows:
“Telegraph mo to Holland House if Mr. Edison can see
me Thursday afternoon about two o'clock."
On my return I sfind that Mr. Edison has been away from bus- •
inoss ever since I went West. He was ill at the timo I left, but
I did not think it at all serious; it developed into a good case
of la Grippe, however, and 1 have ju3t wired. you as follows:
"Mr. Edison confined at homo with lajJrippo. Impossi¬
ble to tell when he can attend to business."
I feel that you do not want to go up to see him at the
house, and as we have no idea whan he will be able to. get d own t o
business, I have wired you to that effect. I do not know how
long you are going to bo here, but I do not think that Mr. Edison
ooulci get down earlier than next Monday, if then, and I presume
'that you will be back home by that time.
Yours very truly.
Dear Sir:-
I am informed that you are a policy holder in the Prudential
Life Insurance Co. 1" therefore write you to see if you will interest
yourself in the passage of Assembly Bill #7, which bill repeals an act
passed in 1880 taking away from the policy holder the right to vote
which they had before that time.
If you feel that the passage of this bill will be of benefit
to the policy holders throughout the State and care to interest yourself
in the matter, I should appreciate very much your writing me to that
effect and also your selecting two or three friends whom you know to be
policy holders in the Prudential and Writing to them with the idea that
they communnicate with me should they too be interested.
In this way I may be able to get in touch with a number of men
who will be interested in the passage of this bill and upon whom I can
call in case of a hearing or if it becomes necessary in any other way.
Trusting to receive a reply from you at an early date,
Very truly yours,
fadvJkald S . co^jcUs
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Mto 3(n«m*tnw« (ttcmrpmttt
at Amc«(»
Sjomr Office, Netotirk, Nciir ilcvar^r
January 23, 1907.
I,!r. J. F. Randolph,
Secretary to Thomas A. Edison,
Orange, M. J.
Your favor of tho 23d instant, enclosing a
letter to Mr. Edison from Arohi'ould S. Aloxander, v/hich
is herewith returned, duly rocoived.
I wish to thank Ur. Edison and yoursolf for your
courtesy in forwarding it, as tho information contained
in it is interesting.
(Enclosure)
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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
Havemeyer Hall
PROF. C. F. CHANDLER
Dr. Thomas A. Edison,
Orange, H.J
My dear EdiBOn:-
I am delighted to see hy the papers that
there is no foundation for the sad story whioh was first
printed. I could not heliere that with all your vitality
you had suooumbed in your youth to a paralytio attack.
I hope you will be in a position to deny all such
rumors for many a year to come, as Mark Twain did when he
read of his death in the paper and wrote to : say that the
circumstances were very muoh exaggerated. '
Very Bincerely yours,
New York . Feb.4,1907.
1
Eob. 6, 1907..
Mr. Edward K.. Johnson,
Hotel Or oat Contra! ,
Tjondon, England.
My dear Johrifloh:
I have your favor of the 24th, requesting the loon
of one thousand dollars, and I have Just oahlod you aa follows;.
"Sohermarhorn has been Instructed pay you one
thousand doll, arc . "
Prom this you will understand that Mr. J. R. Schermerhorn
has been inatruoted to pay you this amount, and you will doubtless
have received samo ere this,
T. fully appreciate your situation and gladly aomo to the
rescue.
Yours very truly,
-P. -S. I return the letter of Mr. Messer, dated January 23. 1907.
which you enclosed with, your oouuaunloation.
Mr. Thos^/Edison,
/ Menlo Perk, n.j.
My Dear Mr. Edison
1 am fitting up a den for my own private use at the
factory and I thought I would like to have photographs of about
three of the greatest inventors of this age to feast my eyes on in
idle moments. Needless to say Mr. Edison is the first of the
three and I would esteem it a great personal favor if you would
send me a photograph of yourself.
Very sincerely yours, //
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from Cairo on february the l'lth^ame as did. our mutual friend Sigmund
Bergmann , and of receiving your Xrd of thanks on my return hero.-
I hope you will not mind when X|now ask of you to send me a very good
photograph of your good self, dedicated something like this:
To my old friend , or "*V,v
To my old " Standbys11 Mr B. Reimers Eenbe?|v
with your signatured
I regret I never had the honor to meet you personnally , but on hearing
that ever since my time with Phil. 3. Dyer, as his right hand man, in 1886
and onwards watohing the EDI30N interests, my still handling the EDI30N
Mlmepgraph for A. B. Dick for Europe, my interests in your Storage battery Co
in Berlin, and now pushing energetically in Belgium as Representative of
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to or worthy of a dedication as sollioited I sinoerely hope you will
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ST. PETER’S MISTAKE.
Saint Peter stood at the golden gate
One Sunday morning— a recent date—
And said to Gabriel, lounging near,
“ How fearfully few the arrivals here!
How sadly seldom a ticket is seen!
In thirty days I’ve punched fifteen!
How screeches the gate as it inward swings!
The keys are a bunch of old rusty things;
If ’tisn’t used, the neglected road
To the realm of bliss will have to be mowed.
In fact, unless more travelers stop
I fear we may have to shut up shop.”
Now Gabriel knew what the matter was;
And, thinking he’d better explain the cause,
Remarked “ Let me have a word, I beg.”
Then changed his weight to the other leg,
And laid one wing on the picket fence,
And said “Fact is that a residence
On earth is made so attractive now,
And cheap, and easy, as not to allow
Of any temptation to visit Heaven-
Such novel joys t0 mortals are given.
They fly over earth on wings of fire,
And under the sea they talk on a wire,
And old Broadway is lighter, they say,
Than the radiant loft where our harpers play;
They have no slaves— declare ’tis wrong—
I don’t see how they can get along;
(373)
[ENCLOSURE]
They have one wife— that’s overdone,
For you and I wouldn’t have ary a one;
For the very smallest of coin, I’m told,
The poor folks ride in chariots of gold;
Their phonograph bottled the voice, last year,
Of a parson that last week got up here;
Their commerce measures the planet’s girth
And fetches fruit from the end of the earth;
While here — no improvement — method the same
As years gone by, when you and I came —
The same old grass, the same old gates, :
The same old croon of the same old mates,
The same old speech to the folks sent down,
The same old halo, the same old crown,
The same old sermons, the same old prayers,
The same old hymns up the same old stairs;
All things exactly as they were then,
And will be world without end, Amenl
The worst of it, Peter, is this— you know
That all the inventors have gone Below, J
And taken their traps, tools, j iggers, and things, .
Their dynamos, wheels, and sprockets and rings, j
Their graphs and meters and scopes and phones, J
For measuring molecules, spectra, tones, |
And that with these, and machines in accord, | ;
The lost ones seek their simple reward: J
Machines that swift as lightning run; {
Machines that paint with the brush of the sun; A
Machines that fly with splendid cars; i
Machines that measure and weigh the stars; \
Machines that laugh, and talk, and sing; “ 1
Machines that are up to everything—
With these to instruct, assist, beguile,
They’ve fixed up hell in first-rate style.”
“ Hoi hoi ” said Peter, ” my friend, I guess
If worse comes to worst that we can progress;
If these inventors such miracles do,
What hinders our having machinery, too?
For you remember, I’ve often said
That competition’s the life of trade.
They’ve stuffed and fooled you, though, about
The sun as an artist — that I doubt;
And he that tells of talk on a wire —
I venture to guess that man’s a liar.
But we might try with possible gain
The anesthetics that conquer pain,
A carpet-sweeper in place of the broom,
A sewing-machine, and a patent loom,
Electric cars with velvet seats,
A sweeping-machine for the golden streets,
A gas retort for our light and fire,
And an organ back of the harpers' choir.
I’ll change my plans and stop to-day
The first contraption that comes this way.”
A space was Gateman Gabriel mute,
Then shifted his weight to his other foot.
And, shading his eyes with his dexter wing,
Said : “ Up the road is coming a thing —
On a single leg ’tis hopping along,
Without a bridle or bit or thong ;
With a double head and a crooked neck,
And some one adrift on the upper deck —
Some one, I say — whether woman or man,
Perhaps you can tell— I’m hanged if I can.”
That moment the stranger, silent as fate,
Dismounted in front of the golden gate.
He said, “ Good morning,” and wiped his brow,
And added, “ I’m almost sorry now —
Your way is so narrow, crooked, and hard —
I didn’t take a spin on the boulevard.
I hear that all the way down and back
They’ve got a lovely asphaltum track.”
[ENCLOSURE]
“ Morning,” said Peter. “ Is that a mill
Or a curious beast you rode up hill ?”
The visitor answered : " The forge’s birth,
A bicycle, popular on the earth.”
[FROM RICHARD EVERARD WEBSTER]
THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
- INCORPORATED -
24,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD.
i ROBERT C. CLOWRY, President and General Manager. _
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you on Juno 26th but personal presence necessary cable- me whether
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ELECTRICAL WORLD
114 LIBERTY ST., NEW YORK
W. D. WEAVER
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Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Llewellyn Park,
Orange, li. J.
Dear Mr. Edison: -
X have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt
to-day of your check for §3000, which cleans i
generous subscription of §5000 to the land and/Building
Pund of the Institute. I could v;ish that jKi our long¬
term subscribers would make good promptl^in the same
fashion, as it would lessen the work e/f the committee
very materially.
You v/ill be glad to hea^ that we have now pledg¬
ed §165,000 and have pollectedyfoi cash about §127,000.
Yfe really need about/§185,000^ and X am going to make a
determined effort this yean/to raise the other §20,000,
p"eady in sight. I am under the im¬
pression that you have rfot yet seen either the Engineering
Building or the neb Chub. X should very much like to
have the pleasure ^t/an early date of escorting you and
Mrs. Edison through both of them. Perhaps you could take
lunch with me in the Club.
Believe me ,
May 17, 1907,
COPY CABIlB.
Kay 25th, 1907.
EDISON ORANGE NEW JERSEY
What is your opiniop Commercial Truck Company Philadelphia
Trucks. Party here named Charles Berg claims knows you personally
and you approve his patented four-wheel drive as practicable.
This is Hill's concern. Answer Savoy Hotel GIIKORE .
Factqries,
Thomas A.
NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH CO. LTD.
EDISON PHONOGRAPHS & RECORDS. p»"'™
25 , CLERKENWELL ROAD. Battery Fan'
J^vnc/erL', $c£
June 4th, . 1907. __
Thos. A. EdiBon, Esq.,
Edison laboratory,
Orange, New Jersey.
My dear Mr. Edison,
We arrived in london on May 18th and I have been good and busy
ever slnoe.
I cabled you relative to a man by the name of Berg who Is
the Vioe-President of a Motor Company In Philadelphia and is also
conneoted with the Commercial Truck Company, and received your re¬
ply which was quite satisfactory.
Berg is like Hill so far as talk is concerned, and he told
certain people here that he was well acquainted with you and my¬
self. Subsequently I was introduced to him; I had never met the
gentleman before. I do not know Why it is that these people mis¬
represent things when they come over, but I presume It 1b to
further their own ends.
I have had no business talks with him and he is going his own
way. He seems to have a very good thing in his multiple controll¬
ing system as he calls It, but I do not know how strong his patents
are. He is over here at any rate to organise Companies, and
naturally Is very muoh interested to know about our battery.
I gave him little or no information as I did not think it wise to
P. Co., Ltd.
do bo; then again, if he wants to find out anything about the
battery he can go and see Mr. Marshall.
I alao received your oable about changing the commercial
type to 150 threads, and answered that I saw no good reason why
this should not be done.
Business here is very poor indeed; in faot the same conditions
prevail in Germany and Prance. It is universal, however, in the
talking machine business.
All arrangements have been made to reduce the price of
reoords to l/- to become effective August 10th. This is made neoes-
sary by the agreement which stipulates that any changes therein can
only be done by 60 days' notioe. We had a long talk with two of
our very best jobbers here and it is their opinion that this reduc¬
tion will be a body-blow to our competitors and will increase our
business in records materially.
You will doubtless remember the patent taken out by Messrs.
Hough and Force that conflicted with Aylesworth' a new method. I had
Mr. Marks go into it very thoroughly, and he finds that Hough was
anticipated by a man by the name of Bawtry. It appears that this
mat\ Bawtry, went to the Edison-Bell Company and showed them his
applications for a patent, and Mr. Hough proceeded to get out a
similar patent. We have purchased the Bawtry patent for the sum
of £30 (or /&50) . It is worth the money. Mr. Marks assures me
that we can now proceed to manufacture, and there is no doubt that
Mr. Hough will find himself in a peculiar position if he attempts
to work the patent that he has. I will tell you a great deal about
this when I get.baok as Mr. Marks is getting a lot of papers to-
N. P. Co.. Ltd.
eether for me to take home. It i8 a most interesting condition.
The new patent law that will he put through at this session
of Parliament calls for manufacturing of patented articles within
four years of the date of application, and therefore it is neces¬
sary for us to take up the manufacture of reoords in Great Britain
forthwith. We are now negotiating for a new plant about eight
miles from London. It is a very large plant indeed, but it is new
and up to-date, and I think will meet our requirements very fully
indeed. Messrs. Schemerhom, Marks, Aylesworth, Riehl and myself
went down to look it over the other afternoon, and everybody was
well pleased with it. I shall take back with me the plans so as to
give you some idea of it .
X am leaving for Paris on Thursday and hope to get back to
London again within two weeks when I shall finish up matters and
sail back to Amerioa as early in July as I possibly can.
The reports that I reoeive from Orange indicate that while
business still keeps up the orders are falling off quite materially.
This, of oourse, is to be pxpected.
I have written to Messrs. Westee & Weber not to decrease the
production of machines one iota and I am satisfied that we will do
a good business this Pall, and of course we want to prepare for it
as far in advance as possible.
Mr. Aylesworth has succeeded in finding out the cause of the
trouble with the wax, and he is now either in Berlin or Hamburg
looking over the factories that manufacture ebonite, steric acid
and so forth. Mr. Riehl goes with him so as to get all the points
necessary, and when Mr. Aylesworth does leave Mr. Riehl will be in
N.
P. Co., Ltd,
a much better position to know how to solve his own problems than
he has been heretofore.
Mr. Ayles worth’s visit here has done them a lot of good.
Storage Battery Situation. - They have been running in London
a lot of very large omnibuses that they use here with seats on top.
They have been an absolute failure. I understand that about
£3,000,000 (#15,000,000) has been sunk in them. The great trouble
is that they get no service out of them, and I am advised by people
who know that at least 50 per cent of them are always under repair;
then again, the engines do not last more than about four months.
Their only salvation here is a good storage battery, and once we
oan get this going I am certain that there is no end to the busi¬
ness that we can do. The conditions in London for this kind of
work are ideal. As a rule the grades amount to little, if anything,
and the pavements are of the beBt. Although Mr. Parshall was never
very enthusiastic he nevertheless wants to get going as soon as
possible. Naturally he knows all about the failure of the petrol
omnibuses and realises fully that the salvation of the Omnibus
Companies is a good storage battery.
Trusting this finds you enjoying your usual good health and
that everything is going along smoothly
Believe me to be
flDUan (Public Schools,
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an interview with you regarding what has been accomplished
and what may be expected in regard to the fixation of
atmospheric nitrogen in a form available as a fertilizer.
The whole subject, so far as the German method
is concerned, developed under the auspices of the Siemens-
Hal she and Deutsche Bank interests of Berlin has reached
the commercial stage. During the past nine months the
subsidiary company of these interests owning the Calcium
Cyanamid patents and processes have in addition to the
commercial works in Italy given licenses throughout Europe
and for the United States, and there is now under construction
plants with an initial capacity of 50, 000 tons per annum and
about 80,000 tons^ initially projected.
Exhausted, investigations have been made by Experts
employed by the American Licensees previous to concluding
a contract for the installation of the business in this
country, and I shall be ^Leased to send you a copy of report
which will be of most interest to you, namely, Report on
Thomas A. Edison, #2.
Calcium Gyanamid and the Industry from a Technical and
Commercial standpoint, hy Professor Charles E. Munroe, of
Washington, D.C. It is now in the hands of the. printers,
but I expect copies to be delivered in a few days.
Respectfully,
<g^CUJ-b / . •
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President.
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JOHN H, WOOD
Loans, Real Estate and Insurance
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JSr. AndrewA: X an pleased to have an opportunity to soy a fow
words on the subject o f eleetrio boating, not only on no count of my
personal interest in it, but alao because X believe it to to a
matter ©f largo future importance. 5Ihe public arc now evincing
moro interest in the aubjool. of cooking and boating by electricity
than they over did before, and the various electric lighting Oon-
paaloa are giving their customers apodal rat, ft e fer current used
for heating and cooking purposes About Kfi years ago, when Hr.
EiUeon was developing his lew tension system, of electrical dis¬
tribution, ho made the following statement in one of the Haw York
dailies.
"We net. only intend to light people’s houses and stsr«3 all
over the country end to drive the machinery in their mills, by
electricity, but we also expect t.e do their cooking and heating
by tho sane means.”
X liave cited the above to illustrate «r. Edison's foresight in
relation to this natter. His predictions as to electric lighting
and tho driving of mills, eto., by electricity ware quickly realise* ,
but the use of electricity for heating and cocking has progressed
very slowly, no that even at the present time, years after JSr.
Sdlaon’c prediction, it haw not advanced to any considerable extent.
This delay nay be attributed, perhaps, to the high coat of heating
and cooking devices and also to the high cost of electricity when
used for this purpose, and also to the unreliability of the Aevioae
which wore put on the market in years past, before the General Elea
trio Company took up their manufacture.
X think we are indebted to the electric flat iron mere than to
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use of eleotricityin the household for heating and cooking purposes,
tm& the flat Iron whioh has boon made and exploited by the <3. S. Co.,
has been especially useful in this respoot. it is comparatively
easy to introduoo the electric flat iron into a household, and when
the devioo in tried and its merits appreciated. It leads to tlio use
of other electric heating appliances.
I have been asked to say something about the improvements whioh
have been made in quarts enamel heating devices during the past year.
Passing by a number of minor improvements, I any call your attention
to the substitution of ” Advance" for "Climax" wire, which was a long
step in the rieht direction. 9,'ho "Advance" alloy has a low fusing
point end also a low resistance na compared with Climax end on those
points the latter 1b preferable, but the unreliability of the Climax
alloy is its fatal drawback. Wo have found that the quality of
Climax wire may be generally excellent but by mischanoo a bad lot of
wire may some time pans through the mill cad this may be made up into
heating devices which, when sent out, to customers, will prove a
source of serious trouble and expense. For this reason the use of
Climax was abandoned and Advance wire has sines been employed in its
place.
CTU5SSIOH: Can you give us on idea what is the composition of
Climax and Advance Alloys?
Kr. Andrews: 9?he Climax alloy is a composition of niokel and
iron- I think about 60$ of oaoh. Advance alloy is a mixture of
copper and nickel. it is not subject to oxidisation like climax
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the matter
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/ of reliability.
£he next improvement that * my mention la the substitution of
ornamental aluminum supports for our dev.looe in place of tho wire
logs which were formerly employed. Bio vf3.ro supports were uao& at
nrstbeonuso they wore cheap and easy to >.ft3co, hut wo now fit all ©f
our Quart b onamol devices with ornamental logs of oast mtaX, than
adding v« ry much to their general nppoaranae.
7 have alee been roguosted to mho a few remarks touching tho
matter of "Improvements and Changes Eocooeary and in Process of te-
volopment." it in almost needless to any that on© of tho most
daeirablo improvements 1;o ho considered 3. a simplification of
structure, 'Vo have nil noted with dissatisfaction the number of
different parts in our quarts enamel devices and tho number of
machine screws used in fastening those parts tog other. So have
therofero boon working to overcome this defect and h<m» recently
devised a new model which we trust will moot with general approval.
A great reduction in, the number of parte has boon effected and the
entire elimination of machine screws permits the device to be taken
apart and reassembled with ease by an inexperienced per eon, for tfc®
purpose of examination or cleaning. x have here a sample of what
wo might perhaps style mu* "1908" model" water boater. You will boo
that every tiling in this heater Is held together by a few turns of a
coarse thread spun into the natal, end, that tho device nay be in¬
stantly disassembled into fear parta-
1. - She containing vessel -
?•» - She self-contained boating unit.
3*'- flhe heat insulating plate-
4. - fha base.
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and those parts may he just as quickly retianombloa, without tho
uso of any tools, i
/aiother Interesting feature In this device la tho un© of a \
non high resistance wire in the heating unit. We have produced
non-oxidlsablo alley which promises to he of great importance
in electric heating devices, as it will make the heating element
indestructible. ffhis now wire may be kept at a low rod heat in
a covered or open veooel for almost any length ef time without axJ
idislng, bosidos which it has a very high specific resistance j J
thus combining in a high degree two moat valuable features. /
Tho change in material from aluminum to nickolplated copper
from a double wall device to a single wall device are both
stopa in the right direction. sheet aluminum ware does not aeon
to appeal to the public taste as well as niokslplatod goods.
We have not brought eat many new quartz enamel devices during
the past year. Who two and four quart tea kettles are new and
useful articles, and 1 may also mention our ahavlng cup, a silver-
plated model of which 1 have here to show you. You will note
that from an ornamental point of view it is very superior to the
cheaper design of shaving sup that is enameled white inside and
exit.
25R. FISH; I am very sorry indeed that we ore a little late
thin morning, so I shall have to ask you to be an brief as pos¬
sible. far. finflrews closed). We are going to hear from Professor
to-night, and I think Hr. k. w. Rice ought to give a benediction
after eaoh mooting, etc.
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London, n.w. England.
Dear Sir:
Yours of the 26th. received. Parshall or Gilmore have
never said a word to me of what you state. I don't quite understand
what you mean ty assisting you.
You remember that I said that if you got in a hole and
wanted money for your personal expenses, I would help you. out,
that still stands good.
Yours truly,
CX €<W*OV,
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Dear Mr. Kdison:
X viBited Mr. Sprague's country home about a
week ago and celebrated hiB birthday, when Mrs. Sprague told me that
she has written to you asking for an autograph photograph to place
in his study but hast riot heard from you in reply. I told her X was
sure it was a matter of pure overs ight.
She is placing for him these potraits around
the room including celebrities like Lord Kelvin, yourself, myself and
others^ and
get yours.
she will be greatly disappointed if she doesn't
Hoping you may be able to attend to this matter,
me ,
Yours truly,
Dear Mr. Edison, -
X am enclosing under separate oover a
newspaper giving an account of ' the opening of the new power
plant- of the Maritime Goal, Railway u Tower Qbmpany, limited .
X beg to thank you for your very kind telegram: the reading
of it at the banquet created .a great amount of eijJhuBiasra.
The power plant ,is running very smoothly and the
Company 1b already preparing to put in more units.
I hope that at an .early dafce you may visit the
Province which is honored by being the birth-place of your
father. If you should come, I sincerely trust that you will
make Amherst one of your objective points.
With1' my kindest regards, belieye me to be;
Ehithfully yours,
' Uw'gaa-BsPSnann — inaullin aaa — alyeratana — on haardngf ranLyai
— - Jahnaan
857am
Maritime Coal, Railway & Power Co., Limited.
MONTREAL, P. Q., Aug. 15th. _ 190 7 -
Thomas Alva Edison, Esq.,
I an greatly indebted to yojl for your kind telegram to Mr. Hanoe
Logan, M. P.( congratulating the Amherst ffloard of Trade, and myself, upon the
first practical adoption of your own suggestion, of the system of manufacturing
electricity at the nouth of the coal mine.
lour telegram has created great interest throughout Canada, and
its reading at the Amherst Banquet spoused the greatest enthusiasm.
Xou will be pleased,/ I ;
, to know that the plant is workin
admirably, and that the people of |he Maritime Provinces are building great
hopes for their industrial future,/ upon the adoption of the System.
I an sending you seme reports, descriptive of the plant and of
the inauguration ceremonies at Amherst.
Xours faithfully,
Hr. J / E. Randolph:
I return Beach's letter. I have written and
sigfied myself for obvious reasons. I attach a carbon copy of
my answer. You had better file this letter with the carbon copy
so that in case anybody wants to look up the reply they will find
it attached. personally I have no use for the gentleman, and I
am satisfied that Mr. Edison would not do a thing for him, What
I have said is dufficient; he is one of the kind of fellows who
wants everybody to work for him for nothing.
8/22/oy. yr. E. Oilmore.
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My dear Edison:
In view of the f aot that you have '^olf'heai
for a long time, and might he getting lonesome on
also that 1 want to find out something
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from me
likely idividual to have the information I
X am plugging away , making iron and othe;
What we want to know is, is it possible to reduce iron
commercially by an electric furnace?
you as the most
T\
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X am supposed , by tliesb people, to know more about electric thingB
than the man who made them , it is not necessary to remark that
this supposition is not correct . In Mexico fuel is high and water
power chea|i. Iron 1b high. So you have the conibination. If we could
find a practical electric furnace, in place of the blast furnace
we would be decidely in it.
I read somewhers in some crazy paper that you had quit
working for money, and were now working just for fun. V/ell I hope
so. But you might have some one around there that is not working
just for the fun of the thing. And if you do not know, or do not
oare to answer this letter m you might let that other fellow tell
me what you know about this subjeot, or at least tell me , if
you can where I oan find out. I do not like to take your time even
to read this , but if you have nothing to do but work for fun.
I
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possibly it might amuse 'you»^&^ 8fi.~ . - .
Seriously we do want to know all we can about this matter,
and it ooorred to me that you might be in a position to give us,
for a consideration j a proper design of a furnace. Our ores are
brown hematite, averaging about 64$ metallic iron. We noW reoover in
the blast furnace about 65$. It costs us about $7.00 per ton to make
pig at the base of the furnace. We are limited in our production
by the amount of fuel available, to about 100 tonjs per day. We could
dispose of 500 tons per day but cannot make it , for want of fuel.
If we could use eleotricity, economically,, we have both the
power and market. Can you give us any suggestion 8
I think you have never been in Mexico, why not run down and see
a very interesting country. They are now running very fine through
trains from ST Louis, and you should enjoy the trip.
As to Mexico I think you would find it interesting. The last
time that Christ was hero, he is said to have made the remark
that he had been all over the world looking for his people, i e the
ones he left in Palestine, but found them only here. Here he found
Mary, both of them , I think he said, and Lazarous, and the rich
young man who had some trouble about getting through the eye of
needle, and the whole bunch, including AN1TA1TIAS.
If you will come down we will take a day of and help you to have a
good time. You would have fun getting these Indians make a hero
of you. i'll bet they would get up a holliday for you. They now
have only 3S4 per year, and one more cOuld not make very much difference
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ThlB gjrimtr’y Is extroamly rioh in minerals, and very little
^vaiope-1*.
ft 3-9 true th&t in some parts great developement has taken
Plao0j only In a few •
v®=G 'JBB.TB ago Gilmore oame down, but saw nothing but the
insl^Q a? » Pullman, end a few bum hotels.
It h© B&ya anything about tell him, it is different now.
He aia hot lika H do it was too far from the Waldorf.
40 to i'310 ws^thor hare, that is their strong suit.
You Qan hav© any kind you- want.
fiore in i*10 oity it is cold. Over in the next county it is hot.
Go UI> or *iovm> and maJ:a your selection.
Yq-U must pardon me for writing such a long one but
1 doh£ do I* ™7 °ftoh.
Yours very
[ENCLOSURE]
EDISON MANUFACTURING COMPANY.
Aug* 22, 1907.
E. H. Beaph, Esq.,
C/o Mexico City Car Mfg. Co., S.A. ,
7 San Juan da Xetran,
Mexico, D.E.
My dear Sir:
Mr. Edison has referred to me your letter to him
of August 10th, haying reference to an electric furnace to he used
in connection with the reduction of iron ores.
Mr. Edison suggests thkt you write to the United States
Geological Survey at Washington for all of the published data that
they have on electric furnaceB to he used for this purpose. -
So far as he is concerned, it is absolutely impossible for
him to give any time or attention towards, anything of the kind,
as his time 1b now fully occupied with his own lines of work
and he cannot take this up.
Yours very truly.
Vice-PreB. & Gen. Mgr.
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Form No. 260.
THE WESTERI^UIffIQItf TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
24,000 OFFICES IN AMERICa!"'
ROBERT O. CLOWRY, Prei
aldent and Genera! Manager.
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Check
SE N D the following message subject to the terms
on book hereof, which tire hereby agreed to.
^ • Sept. 3, 1907.
Bergman,
Elysee Palace, Paris.
Newspaper reports wrong. Edison Best of health.
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United States Electrical Supply) Co,
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Would it t30 too much trouble for ycfet to drop me ai line
stating thh* 4n your ojunioJi my using high frequency currents as I do
in my lent?, i. a A g 111 n<> way dangerous or detrimental to health? As
you profcab?5*no'w' them -is J»t the slightest shook experienced and
therefore xl can be no danger. 1 am taking out some life Insur¬
ance and y"® *<xaid that th6 Company will stop short at "high frequency"
unless i then n letter from you. It will he used for no other.
purpose you. Lu. (<;,
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[ATTACHMENT]
Wonders of Modern Science
=--■ = And the Latest - -
Marvels of Electricity
LECTURE BY W. J. CLARKE
[ATTACHMENT]
A Few Words of
Introduction
|r»-j| R- CLARKE and his lectures are now so well-
IkJ I hnSS" throu(9h°ut the entire country that
IMJ ® ni0t, m^y.committees to which he
L- - J needs an introduction. Besides being a
practical electrical engineer of the highest
standing and a member of some of the most
prominent scientific societies. Mr. Clarke has
Fr!nUHn°Tr^dHHyfappe2ri.Ca invitalion before the
of Ele^ical Enginlenrs!hC American Institute
Mr. Clarke was the first in this country to take
up wireless teiegraphy and was engaged by the
N. Y. Herald to report the first Lip ton Yacht
mirwi by 'v,re CSi' Subsequently Mr. Clarke trans-
a Pbotograph by wireless through a nine
uch brick wall, for the same paper and the achieve¬
ment caused such a stir thattwo columns of news
Mard,‘S “worccBblwJ to the Paris ed°don of
haveHh£!ndn-At he ,w,? Electrical Exhibitionsthat
have been given at the Chicago Coliseum, Mr
Clarke was selected to deliver the popular scientific
lectures and has given a total of nearly one hun¬
dred lectures n the Coliseum Annex The £-
C arke by an exhibition managed by
the most prominent electrical business men in
the country is certainly a very great comnffmeJS
10 i"iS- ability. Please remember that the number
tonsomede°xtem unonethtS gi-Ven bX Mr' Clarke depends
io some extent upon the size and arrangement of the
hall, as well as upon the amount and quality of the
electric current available, so that the lecture hal
dfttons f°Obn ?hi?n°ed to, conform 10 the local con¬
ditions. On this account we are unable tn sunnll
Proarams of Mr. Clarke’s lectures, but we can lav
him that he is provided with such a multinlicitv of
apparatus that he is always able to adjusUheHec-
teniaicd,,eiPerJme.rlts 10 whatever kind of cu£
re™ is . "anc* and never fails to aive the hpct
satisfaction both to the audience and
«|tSunnlvTnC,arl<He l of the U. S.UTh
cal oupply Co., and, being a business man he ic
always careful to correspond with the commit
tee well in advance, so that all arrangements can be
fn” a" b='
THINK OF IT
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passes through Mr. Clarke
and through a volunteer
from the audience to ac¬
tually melt off a wire and
to light an incandescent
lamp to full candle power
without any shock being
felt.
Mr. Clarke made some
astounding statements and
performed some high fre¬
quency experiments that to
the general public seemed
like the highest art in
magic. •
Electric City, Chicago.
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Drawing a 100,000 volt .park from the oicillaio, through the bodier of two people
*1 A lady from the
audience is touching
the Tesla Oscillator
with a rod in one
hand and her little
boy is 'Drawing a
100,000 Volt Spark
from her other hand.
Although this enor¬
mous voltage passes
through the body of
each of them, no shock
whatever is felt.
I
It. Talmas at Least / 00,000 Volts to Properly Excite
an X Ray Tube
And any expert will tell you that both Terminals of the
Tube must be connected to the Generator,
^31 Yet here is a
young lady from the
audience holding the
X Ray Tube in her
hand, and it js . so
brilliantly excited by
the current, passing
from the Oscillator
through her body to
the ground, that an¬
other lady can see all
of the bones 0f her
hand and arm with the
greatest clearness.
Seeing ihe bone* with the' X-Ray
BREAKFAST SET OF ELECTRIC COOKING APPARATUS
The General Electric Company’s
new electric cooking and heating outfits
are used by Mr. Clarke, and he prepares
a lunch in a few minutes and serves it
to a Volunteer from the audience.
THE WONDERFUL SPEAKING ARC LAMP
Several Ordinary Arc Lamps are Placed Around the Hall, and They Speak
Audience in Clear and Loud Tones
MAKES ELECTRIC ARC LAMP SPEAK
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The
Multiphone
Is a new invention for dis¬
tributing music over the
telephone wires.
Mr. Clarke shows this
■ latest marvel in full opera¬
tion and the largest audi¬
ence can easily hear the
transmitted music.
rT,HE MULTIPHONE is the invention of Mr. K. M. Turner of the General Acousticon
1 Co" New Y ork* who make instruments that enable the deaf to hear. People who find it
difficult to hear are especially incited to Mr. Clarke’s lecture, and they will be provided with an
Acousticon, so that they can hear With comfort.
Is about five feet in diam¬
eter and about fifteen feet
long. It is always on ex¬
hibition during the lecture
and where the size and
arrangement of the hall will
admit of doincr so it is
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CLARKE
Combination Transformer
ELECTROMAGNET AUTO TRANSFORMER
HIGH VOLTAGE
and TESLA OSCILLATOR
SEE LARGE CUT INSIDE
Department ok Physics,
University op Pennsylvania.
Gentlemen:
_ _ The Clarke Combination^Traiisformer suppIied by your firm has given
the best of satisfaction; The auto coil is a great converiience where curreofs
of varying voltages are needed for experimental work. The discharge of the
oscillator is indeed a beautiful sight, and with it we can perform many of
Tesla's most interesting experiments. The arrangement of the electromagnet
is unusually convenient, as it enables us to use a wide variation in the number
of turns when experimenting in electromagnetism.
Yours very truly,
ARTHUR W. GOODSPEED,
Professor of Physics.
U. S. ELECTRICAL SUPPLY COMPANY
MOUNT VERNON. N. Y. |s
COMPLETE CLARKE COMBINATION TRANSFORMER IN ACTION
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Niagara Falls, n. Y.
Gentlemen:
Wo hove hod one of your Combination Transformer outfits for
of apparatus. Many of Tesla’s experiments which require currents of
high tension and frequency are readily performed, and the results
obtained highly satisfactory. The outfit is so flexible that we have been
able to use it in our laboratories for work for which we have hitherto
employed generators and transformers costing many times the price of
Yours very truly,
E. B. STEVENS. President.
U. S. ELECTRICAL SUPPLY COMPANY
MOUNT VERNON. N. Y.
Boys’ d'ndustrsaf Association
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Societies, Gymnasium :: Classes in Carpentry, Cane-Seating
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United States Bleotrical supply Co,,
Mount Vernon, IT. Y,
Dear Mr. Clarke!
Sept, 13,1907
I have your favor of September Hth. The posi¬
tion that I have always assumed relative to high potential or.hlgh
frequency currento is no well-known that it is impossible for me
to write you a letter approving of its use in connection with
your locturos or otherwise. I have always been opposed to its
use, and could not signify my approval to you or anybody else
under the oirounstances.
Yours very truly,
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‘Mr. Thos. A. Edison,
near Sir:
We regret exceedingly to advise you in reply to your
communication received today that after thorough, investigation since
writing you we have been unable to trace the missing voucher which may
have been placed in an envelope used for Buch purposes and which was
among the missing papers of which our office was not long ago burglarized
There was nothing connected with the voucher of any value to cause
anyone to appropriate it for its special use and we can therefore
offer no other solution for its mysterious disappearance than is herein
suggested.
Again expressing our sincere regrets for the vouchers dis¬
appearance, we are,
Respectfully yours,
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Nov. 1,1907.
Mr. Thomas A. Edison,:
Orange, N. J\
Dear Sir:
Yours of Oot ,31st to hand,
copy of letter which
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of Oct. 17th. We are very sorry that it ’vent astray and cannot
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understand why you did not receive it- as our return address is printed
very plainly on our envelopes;.
Trusting the same will explain matters satisfactorily,
heg to remain,
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1Rew JDorft Bureau of Information,
BONDED. "
established ism.
incorporated law.
telephones! Ill* CORTLANDT.
No. 60 LIBERTY STREET,
CABLE ADDRESS:
New York, — I.SXr._.ia,.._I2.Q7.„
National Phonograph Co.,
Hr. v/ra. Pelaer,
10 Fifth Ave . ,
Gentlemen:- 1J.Y. City.
Replying to your inquiry about the Co-Operative Press ,
Hail c impress. Building, 203 Broadway, City, wo beg to report, as per
contract, that this is an old biographical scheme of no merit or standing,
which we have repoatedly expospd to our subscribers.
She Co-operative Preis is a trade name for H. H. Frost and
D. E. O'Brien. This partnership existed for only a few weeks. They
claim to furnish biographies, together with cuts of prominent men,
principally in lev; York City, to newspapers throughout the country and
state that they derive their income both from the subject of the .writ e-up
and from the newspapers using ’same. They admitted that they have no
regular customers for such biographers and sell them only after sending
out "queries" to the newspapers.
Frost claimed to have been connected with the editorial staffs
of a number of western newspapers and O'Brien is said to have., been
formerly in the advertising business, but both declined to state with
what newspapers they have been connected. neither of these men are
known in newspaper circles in this city.
These biographical propositions have been worked by a large
number of irresponsible individuals and there are very few in the
hands of those who. have some standing, as news agents, in this City ’
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for prominent newspapers, and. in such oases no fee is charged the
subject of the biography.
T/e beg to call your attention to the fact that newspapers
throughout the country will not purchase miscellaneous biographies
'"until such time as they have occasion to use same and even then will
only pay a very moderate amount, such as a dollar or so, therefore
those running such propositions, as the above, depend ahnost entirely
for their income from fees received from the subject of these biographies
and their proposition has no value.
Y/e. find a man known to us as D. Edward O'Brien, formerly one
of the officers of the Writers' Press Association and a publication
known as the Successful American. O'Brien was formerly a bartender at
the Hoffman House, but becoming acquainted with a number of directory
swindlers, it is said that he went, into this business. After this he
mot William ,T. Hartford, who turned states evidence and obtained a
conviction of two brothers named Morris, partnerd of his. we are
unable to find that O'Brien -is a newspaper man or ever has been.
Yours respectfully,
HE.’/ YORK BUREAU OP IHPORMATXOH.
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Sr; in?, , Randolph . . Washington D.C. Dec 20/07
Dear Blrj
I have just beon iblo to take up your communication
of December 12th , on account of my illness with the la grippe .v
I will be unable to sec you lintll I return to Hew York , which will
bo in about ten days .
If I am not mistaken , your letter which you rei’er
to , of llovomber 21st , lias been attended to from the Hew York
office . It is very strange our letters to you go astray , as it
does not happen so in other instances •
During tlio sessions. of Congress our headquarters are
in Washington . As I understood this matter from Mr Edison in my
last interview with him , everything was satisfactory .
Asking your indulgence until I can see you personally
about the matter and thanking you for past favours,
I remain
Mr J.F. Randolph .
Orange , Hew Jersey .
Very truly yours
IVIilber Reese Hutchison
Confirming my telephone communication with you this morning,
kindly name rental on the old storage battery manufacturing plant
at Glenf^idge, concerning which I was talking with Mr. Edison some
months ago ,
A concern who expect to manufacture one or two of my inventions
are looking for a factory, and X have suggested this one, They sent
a man to look at it last week, and you were good enough to send your
superintendent over to talk to him, as I had called up the labora¬
tory in your absence, and told the young man who answered the 'phone
that someone would be over that afternoon. He seemed to think that
the plant was fitted for the v/ork, and they now await definite infor¬
mation regarding the price, I think they would also like to consider
purchasing it just as it stands if you will name a figure.
Kindly facilitate the receipt of this information as much as
possible, and oblige,
Yours very truly.
Sept. 14-, 1907.
M. R. Hutohison, Esq,,
1 Kadi son Ave. ,
Now York.
Dear Sir:
• •Answering your letter of the 13th, X desire to say that
wo will rent our promises at 01 on Rings for a yearly rental of
$5,000.00, providing a proper lease is arranged.
ffe will consider an offer of $50,000.00 for purchasing the
property.
Tours very truly,
WE0/lWff
General Manager.
leoted aB one of the distinguished Americans whose likeness is
to he reproduced on the allegorical bronze doors for the U.S.
Capitol I am now making. The doors illustrate the intellectual
and physical development of the country.
1 have therefore to request you to please send me a photo¬
graph of yourself „ an unretouched photo from profile would he
preferable.
Hoping to hear from you in the near future, 1 remain,
Respectfully yours,
Subject,
Cheque ,
TOE AMEmCAFEEIlt TELEPHONE CO.
N?125 SIILK STREET
Thomas A. Mison, Esq,,.
Llewellyn Park,
Orange , New Jersey .
Dear Sir:-
Enclosed herewith please find our cheque for the payment
we have heretofore been making, the receipt of which kindly ack¬
nowledge on enclosed form.
The fact that thase^payments have extended over a long
period, during which we have apparently not availed ourselves of
your services in any way, raises a question as to their continuance.
If you have in mind any reasons why further payments Bhould he ma/fa
we will be very glad to take them up with you, otherwise we will
consider the arrangement terminated.
VerjKtruly yours,
"X\ /?
Enclos. u 1&*-
T- ttcwrX H, -V stL- C
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London.
. 10th October 1907.
To Thomas A. Edison, Esquire,
The Laboratory,
Orange,
New Jersey.
■ Lear Sir,
X acknowledge to have received from you the sum of
£200. 0. 0 to be used by me together with similar advances made
to me by other persons In the expenses connected with the agency
which I have taken up from the Johns on-Lunde 11 Electric Traction
Company Limited for the sale of their European patents on
commission.
It is understood that the amount advanced by you is to
be repaid out of the commission to be received by me under such
agency, and it is my intention to apply for this purpose not less
than one-half of all sums so received by me until all such advances
have been repaid, applying the remainder of my receipts towards the
further expenses of the agency. I have instructed my Solicitors,
Messieurs Lawranco, Vebster, Messer & Co of 14. Old Jewry Chambers,
London, E.C. to give effect to the above, and I append copy of a
letter which X have addressed to them requesting them to receive on
my behalf all sums payable to me by the Johns on-Lunde 11 Electric
Traction Company Limited and apply the same as indicated above.
I am, dear Sir,
Yours faithfully
[ENCLOSURE]
Dear Sirs,
London.
9th October 1907.
Referring to the agency which, as you are aware, I lia,ve
undertaken for the sale of the European patents of the Johnson-Lundell
Electric Traction Company Limited on a commission basis and to the
advances which have been made to mo by some of my friends to enable
me to meet the necessary expenses connected with such agency, it is
my intention that such advances shall be repaid out of the commission
received by me, and I wish not less than one-lialf of all sums
received by me on account of commission to be applied in the first
instance towards such repayment, the remainder going towards the
further expenses connected with the agency. X enclose an authority
to you to receive from the Company all sums payable to me in respect
of commission, and shall be glad if you will retain one-half of all
such sums and apply the same in accordance with the above in reduction
pro rata of the advances ms.de to me, particulars of which you have.
Yours faithfully,
(sd) Edward H. Johnson.
Messrs Lawrence, Webster, Messer & Co,
14. Old Jewry Chambers,
E. C.
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London.
9tli October 1907.
To The Johns on-Lunde 1 1 Electric Traction Company Limited,
Southall,
Middlesex.
Gentlemen,
Kindly pay to Mr Allan Ernest Messer of 14. Old Jewry
Chambers* London, E.C. all sums payable to me for commission under
the agreement which I have this day entered into with you as and
when the same become payable to me, tills letter to be sufficient
authority to you er.d the receipt of Mr Messer a sufficient discharge
for all sums paid by you to him.
Yours faithfully,
(sd) Edward H. Johnson.
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M. R. Hutchison, Esq.,
1 Madison Avenue ,
in reply to. yours of the 19th. inst., heg to state that
I have done a lot of experimenting on producer gaa for kilns.
If Mr. Mag el has got any-thing good; I am open for a deal
to test it experimentally,
Yours truly,
Cl- ftebaem
ry to see that your friend Mr .Briadshaw did not comply with
your request not to make publia your subscription of #150 .
ait me to say so, 1 think your
heart, while the remarks in
er to Mr .Bradshaw did credit
that you were not a member of
act, the strike so far as this
tely without justification or
our men well, paid them as
warrant, and have always care-
and grievances that they have
n in every instance where they
time of the strike there were
ire us, nor have the men pre¬
sented ary since the strike. In fact, two or three of my own
acquaintances among our ope rators told me as they were going
out after the whistle blew that they had no grievance against
this company, and did not know what they were striking for.
We were able to immediately man our wires with
operators who remained loyal and with managers, superintend¬
ents and others who are not ordinarily assigned to duty in
the operating rooms, so that we handled our traffic reasonably
well .
The strikers have been gradually returning in
all parts of the country and within the last week a very large-
number have come back to work, so that normal conditions have
now been restored. We do not intend to take back the agitators
or the undesirable men, but we are taking all others back at
the same rate of pay that they received when the struck, and
do not intend to punish them in any way.
On the contrary, we have organized an employes
association, which is described in the enclosed circulars.
It is optional with employes to join this association, no one
will be forced into it, but the company promises those who do
join that in consideration of loyal service they will receive
sick benefits, etc., based upon salary and length of continu¬
ous' service .
We have all felt sorry for the misguided men and
women who have permitted themselves to be carried away by the
exstravagant talk and promises of their leaders; and if your
subscription helped to mitigate the suffering of such deserving
ones among the strikers,. I am glad to know that you made it .
It has seemed to some of us, however, that the only ones who
have derived any considerable benefit from the strike are the
leaders who fomented the trouble and who by misleading and
even false statements have Induced the rank and file to
"stick" for so many weeks after the leaders themselves v/ei’e
convinced of absolute defeat.
With kind regards to Mrs .Edison;
[ENCLOSURE]
POSTAL TELEGRAPH-CABLE COMPANY.
Office of the President.
H Mac 263 Broa°WAY,
IMew York, October 14, 1907.
Announcement to Telegraphers in the Employ of The Postal Telegraph-Cable Company.
The Postal Telegraph-Cable Company, appreciative of the loyal spirit displayed by the
employees who remained faithful and by those who came to its aid when so many old employees
abandoned their duties, believes that this loyal spirit may be strengthened by association into a
powerful agency for maintaining good relations between the company and its employees and the
prevention of such movements as culminated in the occurrences of last August, and it has there-
fore, in conjunction with its employees, decided to form an association of those employees who
■ have faith in the disposition of the company to deal equitably with them, who are opposed to
strikes, commotions, or coercive measures, and who recognize the plain truth that their own
prosperity is bound up in the prosperity of the company. Such an association will be called
. THE POSTAL TELEGRAPH EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION, and its object will be to secure
to the company a loyal working force and to its members employment undisturbed by factions
seeking to coerce or embarrass or harass the company or its employees; and its further object
will be to render financial aid to its employees when sick or disabled, and also in case of
death. The directions in which such an association may extend its activities for the benefit of
its members may easily be seen. The company contemplates that this association may be made
the means of remedying local complaints by affording a ready means by which such complaints
may be properly considered, and also that it may be turned to the purpose of self-help and the
advancement of its members socially, educationally and materially, all of which objects will
have the hearty support of the company.
CLARENCE H. MACKAY,
President.
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CONSTITUTION
The Postal Telegraph Employees Association.
We, the signers of this Constitution of The Postal Telegraph Employees Association,
agree as follows : _ ?
I. There shall be no dues or debts.
II. There shall be a President, Vice-President, Secretary and Board of Directors, con-
sisting of one Director from each District of the Company. The Directors shall be selected
annually by the District Superintendent of the Company from the members in his District.
HI. We accept the assurance of the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company that it will not
tolerate any abuse of the members of this Association by employees.
IV. We accept the assurance of the Company that it will pay to members of this Associa-
tion, during sickness or temporary or permanent disability or upon death, while in the employ
of the Company, an allowance to be determined by the Company and specified annually in
advance to this Association.
V. All persons, except messengers, who are or shall be in the regular employ of the
Company, shall be eligible to membership, subject to the by-laws. Applicants for membership
must be approved by the local Director of the Association and also by the General Manager of
the Company and elected by the Executive Committee of the Association.
VI. All members must agree in writing to abide by this Constitution and to obey the
by-laws of the Association.
VII. Any member who shall be discharged shall have the right to apply to the local
Manager of the Company for a reconsideration of his case, and shall send a copy of such
application to the District Superintendent and the General Superintendent of the Company.
No member, who shall have been in the continuous employ of the Company over five years
shall be dismissed without the approval of. his Superintendent.
• VIII. Any member may make a suggestion for the benefit of the employees to the
Director in h.s District, and such Director shall thereupon, if he deem best, bring it before
the Local Manager and Superintendent and also before the officers of the Association, and
such officers, if they deem best, shall bring it before the General'Manager with a request
that it be acted upon.
IX. This constitution may be amended by
approval of the General Manager.
majority vote of the Directors,
with the
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BY- LAWS
The Postal Telegraph Employees Association.
All employees of the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company, of good character and habits, who do
not derive income from any other tegular employment, shall be eligible to membership.
. Each applicant for membership shall sign a written application on a printed form to be ap¬
proved and provided for that purpose, and shall also sign the following promise:
In the event that I am admitted to membership, I hereby agree to be governed
and bound by the terms and provisions of the constitution and by-laws of the
Association and to be governed by the rules and regulations of the Postal Tele¬
graph-Cable Company, to properly perform my duties thereunder and to work in
harmony with all other employees while in the employ of said company.
I am not a member of any Union and I hereby agree not to join any Union nor
any other organization hostile to the interests of said company, while in its employ.
The application shall be passed upon by the District Director and by the Manager, Superintend-
ent, General Superintendent and General Manager of the Company and by the Executive Committee
of the Association.
The Postal Telegraph-Cable Company undertakes to pay benefits to members of this Association
who may be totally incapacitated for work through no fault of their own, for over one week, in
amounts based upon length of continuous service arid salary at the time of disability, no .benefit
being allowed on account of incapacity of less than one week’s duration and no benefit being allowed
to any officer or employe of the Company whose salary is not affected by lost time.
During: the year beginning November i, 1907, and ending November 1, 1908, benefits shall be
computed >n accordance with the following tables, the company reserving the right to modify said
tables at the expiration of said year and annually thereafter:
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The General Manager will consider applications for benefits in behalf of employees who have
not been in the service for one year.
In the event of the death of a member the Company will pay toward his funeral expenses
amounts shown in the following table, provided that such member shall at the time of his death be
carrying life insurance of not less than $500:
90
100
13
14
15
16
17
18
>9 . .
130
ISO
160
170
180
190
In computing length of service, fractions of a year, if less than six months, shall be discarded,
and if more than six months shall be counted as one year.
The General Manager will consider claims for funeral expenses of members who were unable to
carry life insurance.
Claims for benefits shall be made in writing and forwarded to the Secretary of the Association,
accompanied by the recommendations of the member’s District Director, and of the Superintendent.
Membership shall continue so long as the member remains solely in the employ of the company,
unless sooner terminated as hereinafter provided.
Acceptance of other regular employment for either the whole or part of his time, resignation,
absence from duty to the company without leave, discharge from the company’s service, or joining a
Union or other organization hostile to the interests of the Company shall terminate membership.
Absence by leave or because of disability resulting from no fault of the member shall not be
deemed to break continuity of service or to terminate membership.
Any member who shall be charged with conduct unbecoming a member of this Association,
may be expelled from membership by the Executive Committee, provided, however, that said Com¬
mittee, before acting upon the question of his expulsion, shall give him, by fifteen days written
notice, an opportunity to defend himself before the Committee in person or by writing.
Any member feigning sickness or making misrepresentations shall be expelled by the Executive
Committee and shall not thereafter be eligible to membership.
Any person whose membership in this Association shall have been honorably terminated may be
restored to membership upon the same conditions and terms as are required of new applicants.
There shall be an Executive Committee of three elected from and by the Board of Directors
and such Executive Committee may exercise all the powers of the Board of Directors during interims
between meetings of said Board, but shall always be subject to any specific orders of said Board.
The President, Vice President and Secretary shall be elected annually by the Board of Directors.
They shall serve for one year and thereafter until their successors have been elected. They shall
perform the duties generally incident to those offices.
The directors or Executive Committee may vote by letter or telegram without meeting.
A meeting may be called at any time by the President
The officers and directors of the Association shall serve without compensation.
These By-laws or the Constitution may be amended by a majority vote of the directors and the
approval of the General Manager, provided that proposed amendments shall have been presented to the
Secretary in writing, approved by ten members, and shall have been submitted by circular to the direc¬
tors at least ten days prior to vote thereon.
[ENCLOSURE]
The Postal Telegraph Employees Association
APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP
Full name
Residence . .
Place and date of birth
Date when employed by Postal Telegraph-Cable Co .
Where and how employed ...
What employment, if any other than that with the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company (giving
dates when commenced the telegraph business and dates and places of employment by
different companies, if any) .
What life insurance, if any, is carried. .
I have no regular employment except as stated above. I hereby apply for membership in
The Postal Telegraph Employees Association. r
In the event that I am admitted to membership, I hereby agree to be governed and bound
by the terms and provisions of the constitution and by-laws of the Association and to be governed
by the rules and regulations of the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company, to properly perform my duties
thereunder and to work in harmony with all other employees while in the employ of said Company.
i am not a member of any Union, and I hereby agree not to join any Union nor any other
organization hostile to the interests of said Company while in its employ.
Date _ _ Signature of applicant . _ .
We are personally acquainted with .
know him to be of good character, and recommend him for membership.
Date .190 Name .
Address..
Name .
Address . . . .
We hereby approve the above application and recommend election.
District Director
The above
duly elected by the Executive Committee this..
of..
. '90
Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
New York, Nov. 2d, 1907.
Lahratory,
XElUffi Orange, N. J.
Dear Slrj-
Your letter of 21st which accompanied the check Just handed
to me, and I am very sorry I did not receive it sooner, or your wishes
for non-publlolty would surely have been respeoted In the matter.
As you truly say there are too many youngsters In the
organization, and It seems >as they are In the majority, therewas
no way to hold them In cheokfrom acting too hot headed, even against the
wishes of us old tlmerf.se we had to bow to the majority rule.
Thanking you again for your kindly act
Yours fraternally,
D. P. Bradshaw,
Clinton Hal).
Clinton Near Grand St.
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to the success of your storage battery. Had it" not b£ t^T*
ref era to your lecturing
Hall, I would not have felt like bothering you with^jT^tter.'
I waa the firat in Canada to intrcducecyour doubWreduction
motors on my street railway, when living in Winnipeg. A al80
bought your firat phonograph here, and I ao much admiied you, that
I called my son after you. He has reached the age when he wants
*o branch out in busineaa, and naturally feela inclined to any¬
thing in keeping with hia name, of which he ia very proud.
I thought that if there were anything in this report, and I
could aecure some connection in this line for Canada, I wduld like
to give him a start.
Apologizing for the liberty taken to acquire in fonnation, and
hoping some day to have the pleasure of meeting you.
say that in future those permitted, to direct trie destiny of th,e union
will be rigorously guided by recent experience. As Josh Billings
says, "Only the fool will make the same mistake tv/ice," or words to
that effect.
One strike I did suggest, last year, every sounder to be dumb
for the period of five minutes on the anniversary of Prof. Morse's
sps ©VJVsswiated press.
T.“..„riV‘on 3 mvwbwI
death, as a fitting annual tribute to his memory; but the "leaders"
were too busy with other stratagems and — schemes to arrange tiiat
impressive and profitable innovation.
In the reconstruction of our union, I believe it will be pract.
able to establish the correspondence school, after a year's effort
in obtaining the necessary nucleus.
You are, Mr. Edison, and shall always remain, an idol of the
craft, and one of the world's immortals. If you will give the
suggestion of a correspondence school and printery the prestige of
your approval , the scheme can more easily be promoted. 1 will then
submit the plan to the Executive Board of the union.
tflje Associated press.
I know you will not misconstrue my motive, and I assure you 1
shall not exploit your answer in the newspapers.
To thousands like myself, the glory of your achievements is a
matter of ^personal pride and inspiration, and you are, in my case,
an especial benefactor, Bince for years your latest phonograph has
beenjihe chief source of pleasure for myself and family.
Opr.
iVlAX JUNGHANDEL y ' ~Z" <
TONOPAH, NEVADA
508 Atlas 3lock,
• SaltLake-O:
Thomas A. Edison,
West Orange,- N.J.
Dear Mr. Edison: —
Utah, November 13, 1907
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Enclosed please find a copy or the photo-c.,
graph which we had taken during my last visit in your labor- (
atory in company with Herr Gehiemer Baurat Paul Wallot, the
architect of the Parliament Building in Berlin. I always be¬
lieved that this- is the best- picture I have ever seen of you,
and though'hot' t'o you it may be of value to your family.
tP •By the way, the method I tried some ten years ago in
your laboratory to solve color photography has since been
used, I understand, with excellent results by Mr. Louis Lumiere,
, a well known French photographer and plate manufacturer.
" I wrote to you in the beginning of the year that I am,
since being in the West, interested in mining, especially in
copper mining. As the copper market is rather dull at pres¬
ent, I have lately taken an interest in the hydrocarbons
which exist in the state of Utah; Gilsonite, Elaterite, Ozo¬
kerite, etc. • I remember that you made extensive use of
Ozokerite for manufacturing phonograph cylinders, insulating
electric wires, etc. I have an. option on a mine which con¬
tains Ozokerite of great hardness and high melting point.
Enclosed please find a small sample of it.
Mr. Thomas A. Edison — 2.
I would be pleased to hear from you at your earliest conven¬
ience if your works are still using Ozokerite; if Ozokerite
of enclosed sample would answer your requirements; if your
w<?rks would enter into contract for delivery, and to what
extent.
In your last communication you informed me that you are
interested in cobalt, without giving me details, if i know
your demand I may be able to get cobalt for you. Have you
any use for vanadium. I have an option on a property con¬
taining vanadlnite,
I will be pleased to hear from you and to render you
whatever service in my power, and remain,
Yours sincerely,
225 Fifth Avi
Orange, New Jersey,
Nov. 15 f 1907*:
experimenting with and exploiting the O’Brien Straight Filament
Lamp, samples of which I exhibited to and gave Ur. John Howell
for his personal use and investigation. It is sufficient for me '
to state, that my loyalty to the old Edison interests are as strong
as ever, and in taking up this, it is to pursueone of the ramifica¬
tions of an' industry that was inaugurated by you. I wish very much
to send you one of these lamps for your personal use and will ap¬
preciate a reply stating the voltage of the circuit from which you
would operate it.- tfe make them in all lengths and adapted for use
upon any commercial circuit. Our 235 v. lamp being particularly
Oolonel Hix tells me of your new battery. I am delighted
and a ^convinced that with it you will write the epitaph of the Axle
and other electric systems for car use.
Awaiting your reply before sending the lamp, I i
Very sincerely yours, /n ,
f A li~ (fir i^ia
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104 Madison Avenue,
H. Y., November 19, 1902.
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find the Pennsylvania Railroad contitols all the r<ffiwaya in~the I /
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Mr. Thomas A. Edison, ✓'T^cvv,
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j'.y dear Edison:-
oountry, that is, thev are
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way official asks you is, "Does the Pennsylvania road
-'It?'
I have commenced finding out just what they are doing and what is
their experience. On each road there is one man to work with and
when you satisfy him, he gets the road to adopt the appliance. The
man on the Pennsylvania road is .T. J. Turner, second Vice-President
and located at Pittsburg. He claims t o be an electrician. I send
you a copy of a letter sent me to-day from one of my old agents who
is perfectly familiar with the conditions on the Pennsylvania road.
I shall send yon from time to time all the information I get.
If I take up this matter I want to have exclusive control
of sales in the nited States and Canada. The old agents that were
with me, one in Canada, one in Chicago and one in Atlanta, Ga . , will
be perfectly willing to work with me, and as they are already famil¬
iar with railway business, I would like some arrangement with you
by which I could make some money and take care of them.
I saw Dr. Iiouis Duncan yesterday. He knows a great deal
about storage batteries. He spoke of your battery and said if you
had perfect contact that you had the greatest thing in the world.
He doubts whether you can make perfect contact with your battery.
I? you have no objection, I would like to bring him over some day
and let him see your hattery. I have commenced notifying my rail¬
way friends and I have a great many of them, what I propose doing,
and they have answered that they would willingly help me all they
[ENCLOSURE]
Relay, Md. JJov. 18, 1907,
My dear Colonel
Coniine over Saturday afternoon, I met a gentleman
who wan pretty well posted on the Pennsylvania Electric lighting
system; The battery that they are now using will run from
Hew York to Washington without being recharged, but is percept¬
ibly weaker at Wilmington nnd worse at Baltimore. The oar
is really poorly lighted with 12 oandle power bulbs before it
starts. The Chicago trains have to have a turbine motor in the
baggage oar and they are popping up and down all the time.
There is another trouble that I could see is serious.
They stick all of the lights up in the top of the oar which is
nonsense, because it is too far entirely from the fellow who
is trying to read. Nothing short of a 16 oandle power bulb should
be used and nothing in the light line should be higher than the
regular lamps, and in my judgment they should be put in as side
lights and as cluster lights around the lamps. There is not a bit
of use lighting up the dome in the 7/ay the average electrician is
foolishly doing. I may have some more information this week
which will bo more to the point. But so far, this is right.
Yours truly.
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PORTLAND, OREGON,
Thomas A. Edison,
Orange, II. J.
Dear Sir:
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We, as Oregonians, taka* a gr^&ir d&al of^fido
in our apple, peach and strawberry induattoK^.ffe sinperefly
think that Oregon-grown fruit is equsty^tf ncrft^iorior ,1 C
to any of the eastern-grown fruit and w\^vtake
sending you, by express today, a box of ourr^egon-grovm
Spitzenberg Apples, with our complimonts .
Hoping they will reach you in' good condition
and remembering the pleasant conversation I had with you
last July, I. wish to remain.
Yours very truly,
FV7G/TS
„ A a nnU #104 Madison Ave. ,
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IT.Y. , ITov. 29, 1907.
Mr. Thos. A. Edison,
Edison's Laboratory,
Orange, H.J.
My dear Edison: -
Dr. Duncan and I will come over to see you next Tuesday
afternoon, arriving at about 2 o'clock. If it should be a bad
day or storming on Tuesday, we will come next day, Wednesday. I
hope that you will not forget it and be busy at something so that
ve cannot see you.
Yours truly,
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It i8 almost a sure thing that owing to your numerous
occupations, your wonderful achievements, your now enterprises, you
will have forgotten all about the writer, but I am going to bring him
baok to your raemoiy. It was in 1887 that I had first the honor to see
you, and I aoted at the time as Interpreter between you and Madame
Sarah Bernhardt, since that time I called upon you in ray quality of
New-York correspondent of "Le Journal" of this City and I had the
pleasure of seeing you about a dozen times during my fifteen years stay
in the u.s. - I desire to send you my congratulations for the last
results achieved by your genius and I should like indeed be pleased
to receive all particulars and information regarding your new model-
home, how they are made, their sizes, their prices, eto, as I desire
to get up a magazine artiole about your new buildings; therefore please
gime the latest news.
I should like also to get one of your talking-machine, medium size
and owing to our past acquaintances and past favors I take the liberty
to aBk you for a special price or discount, the amount of which will be
strictly confidential.
I am now at last settled here with all my folks ; my Mother is better
and my wife and sqc * our two youngsters are doing well; $hey expect,
with their father to have the pleasure of welcoming you at Qeni feres the
next time you cross the ocean, h
H, wishing yoWM«#9 *frfOWa*8*T aaiu*)pyf «§*$»(»* ^lixittffiysBt^Ssr
^ g(opd-'i^alth and prosperity, I hag to regain, Esteemed sir,
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NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
WASHINGTON SQUARE, EAST
CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE
University Heights,
New York, Dec. 10, 1907.
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Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
West Orange, N. J.
Dear Sirs
This morning our Assistant Professor of Physics, P. L. Arnold,
along with our Senior Professor, Daniel W. Hering, have called
my attention to the three galvanometers and the one kathetometer
whioh they pronounce very fine and which they have set up in the
Physios Laboratory. Professors Hering and Arnold are sincere,
modest hut enthusiastic students and teachers of physical science.
On behalf of the corporation of New York University, as well
as upon behalf of these professors, I send our hearty thanks for
your contributions which they can use effectively in instruction.
I beg you to accept as a further acknowledgment a copy of
the Morse Medal which is given by us every year in gold metal to
the young man who does best in physics. Professor Samuel P. B.
Morse was not only a member of the Faculty of Hew York Uni¬
versity at the time when he did his chief electrical work, 1837 to
1845 and later, but he occupied a room at Washington Square, where
our School of Law and several other professional schools are
carried on now. He also said in a public address in 1853:
"The room I occupied, that room in the University,
was the birthplace of the recording telegraph."
He created a fund of $1000 by his will to provide for the
giving of this gold medal every year. His portrait upon it is
considered good and X have thought might be of some little interest
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
WASHINGTON SQUARE, EAST
CHANCELLOR’S OFFICE
New York,
(2)
Being myself a native of Ohio, born not far from Cincinnati
and for more than a dozen years a resident of Toledo, 1868 to
1881, I was led long ago in my oapacity as a teacher to regard
your work with interest and I rejoice in all the benefit which
it has brought to the world. I send you also by this mail a
copy of the General Catalogue of Hew York University.
Very truly yours,
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ELECTRICAL WORLD
239 WEST 39th STREET, NEW YORK
Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Glenmont, Llewellyn Park,
Orange, h. J.
Lear Mr. Edison:
I called at the clubhouse this morning to ascertain how
you had spent the night after the great jamboree, and although I
was there pretty early - about half past eight - I found you had
arisen and gone. You are an earlier bird, even, than I am.
We were very proud and happy to have you with us laBt
night and I know that it gave iff* Carnegie great pleasure. It
evidently impressed the newspapers as I note two of them made
attemptes to sketch your portrait as you sat at dinner. In one
you look like Bryan and in the other like Lord Boseberry, but
neither can be considered flattering.
I am sending you under separate cover, by request of
Ripley Hitchcock of Harper's, a copy of their new book - "Electric! ty
Eor Boys" - which has a picture of you as its f rontispieceand the
preface of which refers to you personally. The book is generally
well done .
Hoping soon to see you and get some of your' telegraph
stories for the book, believe me,
Yours truly,
December 10, 1907,
My heartfelt sympathy goes out to you in your great
loss. It is sad to think that so vast an accumulation of knowledge,
capable of being used, for the benefit of man, is forever lost.
n Edison.
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1907. Edison, T.A. - Articles (D-07-09)
This folder contains correspondence requesting Edison to write articles,
correspondence relating to articles about Edison or his inventions, and letters
from journalists seeking to interview Edison or solicit his statements for
publication. Among the items for 1907 are letters from Samuel Insull; Nelson
C. Durand, an Edison employee; and Francis Arthur Jones, an early Edison
biographer.
Approximately 20 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected consist primarily of requests for statements and interviews
that received only a perfunctory response from Edison.
Chicago., J&nuary 28th, 1907.
M
¥. E. Gilmore , Esq. \ '
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Care Edison Manufacturing Company, \ ^ ; \ '
Orange, N.J.
My Dear Gilmores
Did you happen to see the enclosed in the
"Electrical World and Engineer?" You might show it to Mr.
Edison.
Yours truly
[ATTACHMENT]
electrical world.
election, President Sharp expressed
nor conferred, and asked for the co-
of the society in furthering the usc-
r the new constitution and the federal
i it is not, he said, a question of what
the Edison Telephone Co
of a high pile of offices ir
artificers. These deluded
of the skilled proletariat i
lcte sentimental songs wil
was frightful even to ai
sections can do in co-operation, not only for their own benefit
lint for that of the society at large.
Presidential Address of Mr. Bion J. Arnold.
result achieved. Indomitably, resolved to a
manhood by taking no orders (rom a tal
whose stilt politeness covered his convks
[ATTACHMENT]
ELECTRICAL WORLD.
Vos. XLIX, No. 3. •
who organized it Colonel George E. Gouraud (who held Mr. „„ conversation. X did not give the man away nothing would
Ed, son s power-oX-attorne/ in England), and through him I have been gained, and it was too late
?|Se y C°nta?-t *'V,tl1 company, I heard a great I remember anotlicr incident. It was at some celebration at
deal of the early negotiations leading up to its formation, and one of the Royal Societies at the Burlineto H °. ....
m the first experimental telephone exchange erected in Europe We had a telephone line running across the roofcTto thTbasc
Srsaaf sirssi^s sstttaaAi SS
[ATTACHMENT!
Mr. Edison:
Please note and return with.
your comments, if
2/4/07.
Enc-
W. E. /jilmore.
MEMORANDUM
COMMERCIAL. DEPARTMENT
NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH CO.
U.C.D./F.C.
Orange, IT. J.
Mr. J. F. Randolph,
Office.
Dear Sir:-
P lease note the attached clipping regarding
, May 27, 1907
Jr. Edison.
[ENCLOSURE]
The editor of the Chautauqua Magazine asks mo for an article
on Mr. EDISON. In my pages I would like to include a word as to Mr.
EDISON'S present tasks. May I pay you a visit at your Laboratory? If
so, what time will he quite convenient to you? Perhaps you intend to
take a glance at the Electrical Exhibition at the Madison Square
Garden before its close on ninth October. In that case you may be will¬
ing to have me pay my respects on that occasion.
"tours most truly
Thomas A. EDISON, Esq., ^
Orange,
• N. J.
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i ^ THIS BROOKLYN DAILY- EAGLE
Brooklyn, N. Y. , Not. 4, 1907.
Bear Ur. Edison:
I inclose sheet of Eagle containing the
story of my talk with you. I hope I got the
spirit of the interview. Under separate cover
I am sending two drawings to you; the larger
one please accept with my compliments; and may
I ask you to attaoh your autograph to the smal¬
ler one and return to me, as a souvinir of that
pleasant (to me) visit? let me thank you again
for your oourtesy on that ocoasion.
Yours sinoerely,
Sunday Editor.
Ur. Thomas A. Edison, - . ' I
West Orange, IT. J, i
J, THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE
Dear Mr. Edison:
Please accept the larger sketch with
my compliments. I shall he pleased if you will
attach your autograph in ink at the foot of the
smaller drawing and return the same to me for
a souvenir of my delightful visit with you.
YourB sincerely,
Frederick Boyd Stevenson,
Sunday Editor,
Brooklyn Bagle,
Brooklyn, N, Y.
P. S. Please have it hacked with oardhoard so
it will not break.
[ENCLOSURE]
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”y dear Mr Randolph,
Many thanks for returning the pho¬
nographs duly signed by Mr Edison.
Yours faithfully.
December 7th yjieo 7
Thomas Alva Edison Esq.,.
Dlenmont, rS
Llewellyn park,
Orange, N.J.
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My dear Mr Edison,
T called at the Laboratory on
Monday last but was not fortunate enough to be able
to see you. T left with Mr Randolph the book about
yourself which T compiled during tne Summer and
which he tells me that he handed to you. T would
very much like to know if you think well of it. r
enclose a criticism from Mr Harmsworth's paper --
"The Daily Mail". Tf you will send me your opinion
on the book (merely for my own satisfaction) T shall
esteem it very much,
Youi
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N.Y. December 10th, 1907.
The Cosmopolitan Magazine,. which belongs to Mr. Hearst^
would be extremely glad to publish your autobiography. I know
that you are very busy, but I feel that you would perhaps have the
time , if a proper arrangement were made, to give the basis for the
work to me, and I should be very glad to do. the mechanical part of
the writing, if the idea appealed to you. 1 believe that the pub¬
lication of your autobiography at this time would be very encouraging
to young people, and extremely interesting to the whole world. The
publication of a biography, such as I believe you have had in mind —
a book not written by yourself or dictated by yourself — would not
have the same value from any point of view, ' I wish that you would .
consider earnestly the possibility of preparing your autobiography —
as' Mark Twain has recently done. You y/ould have more things and
more important thingB to tell the world than any other man now liv¬
ing. Could you give me an opportunity at your convenience to
discuss this matter with yuu, either here in Hew York City or at
Yours very sincerely,
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Dec. 16, 1907.
My/dear Mr. Edison:-
Xhanke for yovir brief, and characteristic letter.
If you'll have your secretary send me one of your own
photographs with your name on it, I'll he glad to remit
to him the cost of the photograph — there's no reason
why you should he giving such things away. I'll have
the photograph framed with the letter.
I repeat that you ought to write your autobiog¬
raphy. You will never "go into senile' decay" , so there's
no use waiting for that. You could do a,; great deal of good
with your autobiography. Even if you only mapped it out
roughly, you ought to let us have it^
Yours very sincerely, ,
&SM- ^
' THE EUTtJHE.
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Recently, while talking with Mr. Edison, the
writer suggested to him that as he had worked so hard all
his life, it was about time for him to- think something of
the pleasures of travel and the booial Bids of life, to
whioh Mr. Edison replied: »I already have a schedule all
worked out , tWt, from now until I am 76 years . of age, I
expect to keep more or less busy with my regular work, not,
however, working as many hours or aB-hard as I, have in the
past. At,, 76 I expect toawear loud lyaiqtooatsj with fanoy,
buttons, .all so gaiter tope ;rjat 80 I expect, , to ;,learn £pw to
Play bridge whist and talk foolish to the ladies. At .86
I expect to wear, a full dress suit every evening at dinner
and at 90, - Well, I never plan more than thirty years ahead.
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1907. Edison, T.A. - Clubs and Societies (D-07-10)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to
Edison's membership and activities in social clubs and professional societies.
Among the documents for 1907 are items pertaining to the American
Electrochemical Society, the Centennial Association of the Oranges, the
Engineers' Club, the Republican Club of West Orange, and numerous other
professional societies, automobile clubs, booster clubs, and philanthropic
organizations. Some of the items contain Edison marginalia.
Less than 10 percent of the documents have been selected. The items
not selected consist primarily of announcements, invitations that Edison
declined, and correspondence from organizations in which he did not
participate.
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Mr. J. F. Randolph:
Referring to the attached letter from the Kern
Canyon Club, of oourrte it is all very well for Hr. Bdison to be pouted
as an honorary member, but I do not see that he has to write very
much of a letter about it. What they are after is hie photograph
with his autograph attached, and I guess they are more interested
in this than the letter. However, as to a letter, I would simply
suggest writing about as follows:
"I have reoeived your favor of March 4th, reply to which has been
delayed due to my absence in the South. I appreciate the fact
that- you have made me an’ honorary member of your Association,
whioh is hereby accepted.
I have given orders that a photograph be sent to you, to which
I have attached my signature, and I trust that it will arrive safely.
:esa or your Club,
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W. E. Gilmore.
f^MERIOflN E>LEOTROOHE.MIOflL SoOIETY,
Collogo Clly of Now York, N. Y.
5r. C, O. Mallloux, Consulting Engineer,
76 William Street. Now York.
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May 25th, 1907.
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Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
Orange, N.
Dear Sir £\
The American Electrochemical Society proposes
to hold their next meeting in New York Oity, sometime during
the month of September. We are anxious to have the meeting
a success and to have the Section make as good a showing as
possible, as the meeting this time will be hold under the
auspices of the local Section. In making up the list of places
that will be available for excursions for members, it haB occurred
to me that perhaps it might be possible to arrange an excursion
to your Laboratories. If you could grant us this courtesy, I
am sure it would be very much appreciated by many of our
members, and I think the fact alone that we could announce
an excursion to your laboratories will bring a good many of the
Westerners who will be very anxious to see it.
Kindly think the matter over and if you can
see your way clear to grant the favor, I can assure you in
advance, that we will make up quite a large party and hope to
enjoy the privilege granted us. With best wishes, believe mo,
Sincerely yours^
LBG§
Secretary - Treasurer.
tl~U* Sc-
Asaoriattitn af lEhtaon dIUummattttg (Enmpattt^s
Edison Illuminating Companies, an Invitation to he present at the
23rd annual meeting of the Association to he held at The Homestead
Hotel, Hot Springs, Va., Sept. 10th, 11th and 12th.
We shall he glad to have you, as an Honorary Member of the
Association, take part in our meetings, or, if you prefer the status
of an invited guest, we shall he glad to have you share in the
incidental amusements of the oooasion and in the viBiting with
friends, which is the most pleasant feature of these annual gather¬
ings. On either footing, or on both, you will he exceedingly welcome.
Will you kindly let me hear from you?
Yours truly,
ELECTRICAL WORLD
August 8, 1907.
T. A. Edison, Esq.,
Edison Laboratory,
Orange, li. J.
Soar Hr. Edison:
2ho assistant secretary of the Aarican Society
.of Hochanlcol Engineers has a certificate of honorary membership
for Hr. Androw Carnegie which ha v/inhos to have you sign v/hen con¬
venient. IIo will bring it. out to the Laboratory ary time you des¬
ignate for that purpose, as X boliove it is desied to forward it
to Skibo Castlo.
Shanking you for your attention of this matter,
Yours truly,
believe
REPUBLICAN CLUB OF WEST ORANGE
HEADQUARTERS— HEDGES HALL
Mr. Shos. A. Edison,
West Orange, N.J.
My dear Sir:-
EVERETT COLBY, prionidiint
IK8IDKNT GEO. BUROESS, SECRETARY ^
West Orange, N. J., _ tny. iKt.h.ioni'. iq^
On the eve on another Primary Election the writer is
turned loose to endeavor to raise funds to help .carry on the work
last year in town we elected a mmmher of the Council and hope
to elct two more this year#
We are still fighting for the principals of Senator Colly
and to elect the ;memlers of the Assembly who were with him two
years ago at Srenton*
Will you not. aid us in this campaign and in the campaign for
decencyjand letter Government in West Orange- >
Just imagine little West Orange with forty eight saloons
and other conditions as lad or worsen
Don't y re need, better Government-*
Shanking you heartily for your many, favors of the past to the
vrriter and again bespeaking your interest,! am.
Respectfully yours.
RECEIVED
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As a member of the committee of the American Electrochemical
Society, arranging for the annual meeting to take place in this city, Cither
the third or fourth week in October, I am writing you in regard to thd ex¬
cursion to your laboratories. Dr. von iBakowios has informed me of your
willingness to have such an excursion. I am most desirous to offer this
as a special and attractive feature of the meeting. I shall be pleased,
indeed, to hear from you in regard to the matter. We hope to have the
preliminary program made up within ten days.
With very high regards, believe r
Professor of Chemistry and
Director of the Daborato ry .
clubs
American Ejleotrochbmioal Society,
As per your kind invitation o^sorae time ago,
we have arranged for an excursion <fo your laboratories
for Friday, October l8th and the party will leave the Chemists*
Club about l.JO P. M.
Will you kihdly suggest by what railroad it- will
be most convenient to reach your laboratories and I
will obtain a timetable, so that I may got the definite time
at which we will leave Jersey City*
/faking you to accept in the name of the N.Y. Committtee
our President and of the Committee which haB the excursions
in charge our hearty thanks for your courtesy, and we hope
that many of our friends will take advantage of your
kind invitation. We will announce the details just as soon as
I hear from you and hope that you will kindly advise me
during the next few days, because we are waiting for your reply
to issue the definite programme.
CITY SUP’T OP SCHOOLS
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Santa Barbara, Cal.,<Bept. 23, '07. I
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Hon. Thomas A. Edition, ewv «w.eU«w<u ©^Jk*uW<
Menlo Park, New Jereiy. ^ W>#^CU< 7
Dea* Sir:- It has been ray groat, good fortune to secure Luther Burbank t *
as one of the speakers at our (^nfornia^^eacheJs & soo i^&Iof
Southland, and now I want to make) it the greatepV meeting any similar
lN-«rW-^v» j <- - .. ty ... ...
Association ever had by seourlng your presenoe for an a^dregsnr t\^».
The meeting will be held Deoember 18, 19, and 20, at Los AngelesT^'
There will be thirty five hundred, teachers present which will give as
fine an audience as any man cola d wish to /have. Iruaddition to this
meeting, the State Association wllr oonvene at Santa Crua Deo. 30, Jan 8
and 3. They want you for one or two lectures there al^o.
What we want is to hear the simple story of some of the wonderful
things you have done. It would reach nearly half a million boys and
girls and stir the whole Paoifio Coast. Take a couple of weeks off, from
your untiring labors, come out here to this wonderland of the world
for a couple of weeks vacation, and grant us the boon we crave — to
hear you tell the story of work that has transformed civilisation.
Very truly,
Mr. Thomas A. Kdison,
Orange, IT. J.
Ntf I y
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Hear Sir:- The Club has under consideration the purchase
of a new Club House.
Three properties have been suggested as desirable, and a
committee is now having plans prepared showing their relative
merits. The report of this committee will be laid before the
Club at an early date.
Before any definite action can be taken, the question of
financing the operation is under consideration. 3?or this pur¬
pose a committee has been appointed, of which you are a member.
V/e would be glad to receive your acceptance at your early
convenience, in order that a meeting of the committee may be
called at an early date.
ROBERT T. LOZIER
October 9th, 1907.
THOMAS A. EDISON, ESQ.,
Orange, New Jersey.
My dear Sir: -
^ ‘- S .. -
It has- given me a great deal of pleasure to preposre'
the names of Col. W. Preston Hix and his son, Mr. E. Randolph
Hix, as members of the- Engineers' Club. They wi-ll be
second-ed by Mr. H. Mcl. Harding and endorsed -by Dr, Xouis
Duncan. Your name has been given me by Col. Hix as one of
his friends in the Club and I shall be very glad to have you
add your name to the Membership Booh by instruction to the
Clerk of the Club by mail to do so. I should like to have
you endorse both Col. Hix and his son, if you feel your ac¬
quaintance with the latter enables you to do so .
Please accept thanks in advance, and believe me,
Very truly yours.
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‘/^MERIGAN EjLEOTROOABMIGAL SOOIETY,
Dr. E. F; Roober, Editor Eleclrochemtcal Industry.
Monticeiio. N. Y. October 12th 1907.
Mr. T. A. Edison,
Dear Sir:
Orange, N.J.
I wish to advise that about 90 have so far
accepted to join the excursion to your laboratories which
will indicate an attendance of about 125 or more as many
have not yet answered.
I hope to see you at our banquet. We will
have many guests from all over the country. Please attend.
As one of the best known and most prominent members of the
Section we cordially ask for your cooperation by attending.
Many out of town ladies will attend the banquet. Can we
not prevail upon you to attend and to bring Mrs. Edison?
Sincerely yours,
October 14th, 1907,
Ur, Thomas A, Edison, j
Orange, New Jersey,
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My dear Mr. Edison: - ^
I have your letter of October 12th, which is
satisfactory and for ,jvhich please accept thanks.
rtl/g
■RmERICAN B>LEOTROCHE,MICflL SOCIETY,
Mr. Thomas A. Mi son.
Orange, New Jersey.
Dear Sir:-
I wish to advise you that the total registration
for the excursion to your laboratory on Friday afternoon
up to date is Ho , which would indicate that a larger
number in excess of this would attend the excursion, as many
of our friends and guests always attend the meeting that do not
notify us previously.
We will leave by the D. L. & W. R. R. , West 23rd
Street at 2.3O P. K, , arriving in Orange about 3. 20 P. M.,
which would bring us to your laboratories by trolley cars about
3.30. We will have to leave about 4.Jo, so as to get the
5.09 back to New York.
I. Addicts
L. Baekeland
C. Baskerville
W. Bowman
C. S. Bradley
A. A. Breneman
W.H. Browne Jr.
C. F. Chandler
H.B. Coho
E. A. Colhy
F. B. Crocker
C.A. Doremus
W. Dreyfus
G. Drobegg
T.A. Edison
A.H. Elliott
W.J. Hammer
W.S. Howell
W.R. Ingalls
'W. McMurtrie
0.0. Mailloux
J. T. Morehead
W.H. Nichols
H. Philipp
•H.N. Potter
E.E. .Roeber
A.J. Rossi
G.P. Scholl
C.L. Speyers
M. Toch
S. A. Tucker
R.von Foregger
A. von Isakovics
W.D. Weaver
AMERICAS ELEC TRO CHEMI CAL SOCIETY.
New York City October 17, 18, 19th 1907.
Exe cut ive Commit t ee : -S . A . Tucker , Chairman ,
A. von Isakovics Secretary, Mess. Baskerville,
Drobegg ,Mailloux, Roeber.
Entertainment Committee :-G. Drobegg Chairman,
Mess. Coho, Dreyfus, Toch, von Isakovics.
Press Committee : -E. P. Roeber , Chairman,
Mess. Browne Jr. , Ingalls, Weaver.
Excursion Committee :-C.P. Baskerville Chairman,
Mess. Addicts , Colby , Crocker , Doremus , Edison , Hammer ,
Howell, Philipp, potter, von Eoregger.
Reception Committee : -C.O. Mailloux, Chairman, Mess.
Baekeland , Bowman , Bradley ,Breneman, Chandler , Elliott ,
McMurtrie .Morehead .Nichols , Rossi , Scholl .Speyers ,
Weston ,Wiechmann-
Registration Headquarters and place of meeting
Chemists Club, 108 W 55 St.N.Y.
Hotel Headquarters: -Hotel Cumberland, 54th St.
and Broadway N.Y.
Ladies are specially invited to attend the Reception
Thursday eve, the banquet Friday night and the
excursions Friday and Saturday afternoons.
THURSDAY OCT. 17th.
7 P.M. Meeting Board of Directors.
7 P.M. Meeting Ladies Committee.
,8 P.M. Reception! at Chemists 4'J.ub.
8.40 P.M. Dr. Geo. F.Kunz
- ~ • Lecture' on the "Diamond -and Moissanite".
9.30 P.M. Lecture by E.G.Acheson on
"Deflocculated Graphite", with Experiments.
FRIDAY 'OCT. 18th.
9 A.M. Reading and. Discussion of papers. Special
Feature : Electrometallurgy of Iron and Steel.
12.30 Lunch at Hotel Cumberland. (75(0
1*30 P.M. Excursion to Laboratories of Thos. A. Edison.
SJ/SO P.M. Subscription Dinner. LADIES SPECIALLY
INVITED, Liederkranz Hall 58th-Street
, near 4th Ave. §5.00 per cover.
SATURDAY OCT. 19tb
9 A.M. Reading and Discussion of papers.
This meeting will held at Columbia University.
1.00 P.M. Lunch at Hotel Cumberland. (75^)
2.00 P.M. Excursion to Pa. Power Plant. Long Island
City and other points to be announced later.
8.30 P.M, Smoker tendered to the A.E.S. by speoial
invitation of the ChemistB Club. N.Y.
Members and Guests will register and obtain badges,
admitting them to the various functions, at Chemists
Club 108 W 65th St. N.Y. Thursday Ootober 17th 8 P.M.
Alois von Isakovics,
Seoretary - Treasurer N.Y. Section,
Montioello, New York.
ROBERT T. LOZ I ER
IIS Broadway
Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
Orange, New Jersey,
My dear Sir: -
I take pleasure in handing you herewith the informs- -
tioii that I have obtained to use in connection with Ool,
Hix's application for membership in the Engineer's Club. I
understand that the membership will be increased by two hundred
and fifty and that the opportunity presents Itself of their
coming in without delay. If there is any further informa¬
tion that you desire in connection with this matter, I shall
be very glad to furnish you with the same.
Yours
faithfully,
October 24th, 1907.
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Information regarding col. w. Preston Hlx.
Ho, 1. 60 Years
Ho. 4 Has with the Edison Electric light Interests for
eleven years and for several years past has been
the General iTanager of and a Director in the
Commercial Acetylene Company. Organised four
of tho Edison Electric Illuminating Companies;
vis: In Philadelphia, Kansas City, St. Paul,
Topeka,
Is a man of considerable means and in every way
Ho. 6 qualified for membership in the dub.
Ho. 7 G. D. Barron, Dr. louis Duncan, Thomas A, Edison,
Charles 1, Edga?* William Gardner, H. Mol,
Harding, Alex. 'Henderson, Edw. N. .Hurley,
Samuel Insull, E. J. Sprague, Sam Tate,
E. 1. Wiles. j
1907. Edison, T.A. - Employment (D-07-11)
This folder contains correspondence from or about employees and
prospective employees. There are also letters soliciting Edison's opinion
regarding former employees seeking positions elsewhere. Most of the
correspondence consists of requests for employment at the West Orange
laboratory, some in answer to newspaper advertisements. Among the items for
1907 are letters from former Edison employees Calvin T. Freid and R. D.
Casterline, along with a financial statement of the Edison Employees
Emergency Association.
Approximately 10 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected consist primarily of unsuccessful applications for
employment at the laboratory.
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New York, March 20. 1907.
J. F. Randolph, Secty*,
Edison Laboratory, '
Orange, N. J.
Dear Mr* Handolph:- ,
I wish to thank you for your not/ of March 19,1907.
Not hearing from our letter for so Ion/ a time, had caused
great disappointment to ub, and a gobd deal of mortification
to Mr. Delany. j
Mr. Edison and Mr. Dalony were eo closely associated
in so many ways in the early days that Mr. Delany had come to
feel that Mr. Edison reciprocates the warm feeling felt by
Mr. Delany for him. \
I thank you again If or your letter, and would ask
your kindly service in s Ling that our letter reaohes Mr. Edison,
and receives as favorable! consideration as he can give it.
With recards .
' frrwL
Hr. Jfaftfceai Randolph:
Kindly oroBB off the books the address heretofore
entered of 52 Broadway for Chas. Batohelor. All printed matter,
cheoks and in fact communications of any kind should be sent
to him at Ho. 33 TV. 25th St., Hew York.
3/25/07. TV. 35. Gilmore. •
[ FROM WILLIAM E. GILMORE ]
Mr. Wes^ee:
SU'C. —
On the first day of June and the first day of July, X
wish you would pay Owen Kennedy, my coaohman, the sum of $45.00,
being his wageB per month.
Ity son Edgar will require money from time to time, and in
fact X might say my family, so that in case Edgar or GladyB should
telephone for money, send it along to them.
Each week you should take up to Mr. Edison the regular weekly
reports of orders reoeived, unfilled orders, etc. etc., the same
aB I have done in the past. These should always he ready on
Tuesday. Walker thoroughly understands about them and knows
what it represents.
There may be Borne personal bills come in with which you are
not familiar, and of course they should not be paid unless
necessary, but I oannot see why they cannot wait until my return.
Walker may come to you with some billB for repairs or someth|ng
of that kind to my Valley Road and Mitchell Bt. houses. If
they have been approved I wish you would see that they are paid
and charged to my account.
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1907. Edison, T.A. - Family (D-07-12)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to
Edison's family. Among the documents for 1907 are items pertaining to the
financial difficulties of Thomas A. Edison, Jr., and William Leslie Edison; the
schooling of Charles Edison; and the activities and finances of Mina Miller
Edison.
Approximately 90 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected consist primarily of receipts and documents that duplicate
information in selected material.
NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH COMPANY.
John E. Helm, Esq.,
Prudential Building,
Newark, N. J.
Dear Sir:
Jan. 3, 1907
We enclose you herewith letter from W. B. Clarke of the
Bond & Mortgage Guarantee Co., New York, dated Jan. 2, 1907,
in whioh he says they can arrange with the holders of the mortgage
on No. 10 Pifth Avenue to rooeive payment and take a mortgage for
the same amount subject to the recording tax, rate of interest to
be bfS and mortgage to run for five years; the fee to be aB stated'
in their letter to Mrs, Edison dated December 20th. As you
have the matter in hand, this letter is referred to you for atten¬
tion.
Yours very truly,
NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH CO.,.
IWW Per.
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[ATTACHMENT]
In reply to your letter dated December 27th, 1906, enclcslg
letter from the Bond and Mortgage Guarantee Company, together with
your reply relative to the mortgage on property No. 10 Fifth Avenue
New York City owned by Mina M. Edison, I wish to state that I have
examined the New York statute law relative to mortgage and personal
property tax in so far as the same relates to the present mortgage.
I have also had an interview with Mr. Clarke of the Bond and Mort¬
gage Guarantee Company, the attorney for the present mortgagee.
As to the law as applied to mortgages, I wish to state
that I have found that in 1896 the State of .New York passed a law
classing mortgages as personal property and assessing than as such.
The tax rate amounted anywhere frcro one to one and one-half per
cent. This law was amended in 1905 and taxed mortgages a yearly
tax of one-half of one per cent due on the fifteenth day of .Tanuary,
and payable on the first day of July in each year. This law was
again amended in 1906 and instead of assessing a yearly assessment,
of one-half of one per cent on mortgages the law now, as applied
to new mortgages, after July 1, 1906, levies a recording tax of one-
half of one per cent; after this tax is paid there is no further
tax assessed on mortgages.
This mortgage was made prior to -the passage of the law of
, to wit, on the 22nd day of May, 1906, for thirt een months at
1906 ;
[ATTACHMENT]
the rate of five and one-half per cent interest, with a revocation
clause giving the mortgagee a right to call and demand payment of the
mortgage at any time the law was changed relative to mortgage taxes.
When this mortgage was made it was made under the act of 1905 assess*
ing a yearly one-half of one per cent tax. This law having heen re¬
pealed in July 1906 the mortgage at the present time is again taxable
under the act of 1896, making it personal property and taxable as siOi
such. When this mortgage was made it was made for five and one-half
per cent so as to compel the mortgagor to pay the yearly one -half
of one per cent tax. The mortgage makes no provision that the mort¬
gagor pay the tax, except the extra one-half per cent, consequently
the demand for payment, the mortgagee fearing that the tax on the
mortgage for 1907 may be from one to one and one-half per cent.
Mr. Clarke of the Guarantee Company informs me that the
mortgage must be paid off on or before January 14th. X have ex¬
amined the mortgage and find they have a perfect right to demand pay¬
ment on or before that date. If a new mortgage is made, which they
are willing to do, the new mortgage will operate under the law of
1906 compelling you to pay a recording tax of $375. and a fee of
$69.50 to the Guarantee Company for their services. The new mort¬
gage will be made at the rate of five per cent per annum and I think
from what Mr. Clarke informs me it can be made for three or five
years. I have also had Mr. Clarke agree that in the event of a new
mortgage being made that there would be no interest charge dn the old
mortgage from the date of cancellation to the date upon which it
would become due, although the mortgage states that that can be done.
[ATTACHMENT!
JOHN E. HELM
W.E.G.-3
In other words interest on the old mortgage would cease as of Janu¬
ary 14th and interest would begin on the new mortgage on the same
date so there would he no interruption in the interest.
I would recomend that the mortgage he assigned to someone
in New Jersey willing to take the same, as it is a mortgage at the
rate of five and one-half per cent, and, if taken by a resident of
New Jersey, it is not taxable by the New York city, county or state
authorities. If you make a new mortgage to j^orce person or corpora¬
tion in the state of New York there is no telling but what the
legislature at ibs next session, or a sessioh thereafter, will again
bhange the mortgage tax law and compel you to go to further ex¬
pense in negotiating a new loan and possibly imposing a much larger
tax than .was ever imposed before. The attitude of the up-state
legislators seems to be to levy a tax yearly on mortgages and the act
of 1906 was only jiassed by a very email margin of votes. Therefore
the liklihood of a change in 1907 bringing mortgages back into the
old personal property list and imposing a heavy tax.
The fees, as I understand it, from the Guarantee Company,
will be probably $25. to assign it.
I desire to hear from you not later than Wednesday morning
at which time I have an appointment with the Secretary of the Gna¬
t-ant ee Company to let him know- definitely whether you are going to
make a new mortgage or have the present mortgage assigned to someone
in New Jersey,
Yours truly.
JEH-HD.
[ATTACHMENT]
John E, Helm, Esq.,
I have your favor of the 31st, regarding the mortgage of
$75,000.00 on the property No. 10 Fifth Avenue, held by the Bond
& Mortgage Guarantee Co.
I have discussed this matter with Mr. Thomas A. Edison, in the
absence of Mrs. Edison, and it has been deoidod that we would
prefer to have the mortgage extended on the terms arid conditions
mentioned in the letter dated December 30th/vfrom Mr. W. B. Clarke
for a period of two years. 1 think by the end of that period we
will be able to make some other arrangement; that is, either to
oanoel the mortgage or to get it on better terms. Five per oent.
seeniB to me to be rather high for first-class property in New
York, but 1 assume that they will not do better than this, plUB
whatever the taxation may be in the State of New York. However,
if this is the best that you can do, kindly arrange matters- ao-
Any expenses in connection with this will be borne by this
company. If you require any money advanced to you while I am awt
if you will oall on Mr, Westee he will immediately send you a
Yours very truly,
J ohn S' . Randolph, Esq . ,
laboratory Building.
Dear Sir:- <
Regarding the matter of fixing up the bathroom
at Tom's place, concerning which I spoke to you and Mr.
Edison, the work has now been done and I enclose the plum¬
ber's bill amounting to $443.55. The estimate was $405.50
but Tom writes the enclosed letter of January 7th, stating
that he bought an extra fixture, for which he paid $35.
and for which he sendB me a check. I enclose my check for
this amount . I also enclose a letter from Tom written on
the 8th inst . , from which it appears that the plumber is
anxious for his money.
I also enclose a bill for $30., representing 3,000
brick, which Tom ordered for lining hiB cesspool. I paid
thiB bill myself, as for some reason I was not able to
speak to Mr. Edison about it at the time. I wish you would
Bend me a
ITD/ARK.
Encs .
[ATTACHMENT]
Mr. Burton Willard,
Delta Road, Burlington, N..T.
Dear Sir:
I will do the proposed plumbing in your residence, sup¬
plying the followii^ described fixtures, for the sun hereinafter
named; place in position designated by you on the third floor,
a three hundred gallon cypress tank, properly connected from pump
supply, and from tank to the various fixtures, as selected by you,
from the Standard Sanitary Company’s catalogue.
Place in bath-room one 5' Occident tub, plate P-121, page
47; one water closet, plate P-841, page 255; one stationery wash-
stand, plate P-558, page 167; one foot-bath, plage P-230, page 90;
proper connection to be left in this room for the installation of a
hip-bath.
Place in kitchen two part laundry tubs of soap-stone and
cement; one 18" by 30" galvanized sink, with back legs and drain-
board; one thirty gallon Philadelphia hand made galvanized boiler
and stand, also water-back for range.
Place where desired one 1-1/4" double acting force and lift
pump, brass lined, properly connected to tank and well; supply 155
feet of six inch salt glazed vitrified pipe; also two six inch Y
branches and three six inch bends of the same material, for drain
to be constricted by owner, .All the fixtures to be properly
connected to the hot and cold water supply and drained and vented
through 4" cast iron soil pipe, extended above the roof. All
supplys to the different fixtures to have independent stop and
waste, and all fixtures to be supplied with full nickle-plated
trimmings. The whole to be completed in a satisfactory and work¬
manlike manner, for the sum of four hundred and five dollars and
fifty cents ($405. 50).
Contractor.
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Mr. J, F. Randolph,
O/o T. A. Edison,
Orange, N. J.
Dear 3ir:-
Jnne 1st, 07,, is one of the interest dates of onr mortgage, and I
am making an effort to pay off just as large a part of the principle at that
time a3 possible.
If yon could find it convenient to send me a check, for the Edison
subscriptions before, that time, it would help me in my efforts to reduce oup
interest account, for the next six months as much as possible.
Thanking you in advance, for yonr prompt consideration in this matter,
I remain.
Yours truly,
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Mr. Randolph
Mr. McCoy has placed before me the enclosed
bills against Tom, of Dr. J.E. Blair of Burlington for $150.
and of Dfc. Richard C. Norris of Philadelphia for $100., and
tells me that Tom is not able to pay them, VTe have discussed
these bills with Mr. Edison who says that he will be willing
to pay the same on the condition that $ the amount ($125.)
shall be repaid by Tom at the rate of $5. per week. I think
it would be safer to have Mr. McCoy pay the bills, rather than
to send all the money to Burlington, and therefore if you
will send me a check for $250 I will hand i^tcPMr. McCoy
and have him pay the bills. When this is done Mr. Edispn'B
idea is that you should send only $45. per week to Burlington.
Until .the 'amount of $125. is made up.
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BELLEVUE-STRATFORD GARAGE
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WILLIAM L. EDISON
Plila&eljilfttt, Aug. I5th. 07.
My dear John-;
Mrs Ediaon' requested me to write and inform you
that she has returned to Marshallton at which place she will remain
until further notice.
I shall probably bring over one of my cars to the laboratory in order to
. show the people what a real car looks like.
Trusting that you are enjoying good health, I beg to remain,
Sincerely yours.
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RECEIVED.. 238 Bi.Strltogi.1. J. Tipton, 90. /WMT v
1 1* or 23 Collect Nlte/u?j//
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Akp*n Ohie Sept 10th-7
Themas A'Edissn
Orange N J
Firmness dees net require answer until sept twenty eighth will
knew in a few days whether can settle, as agreed
Ira Miller 854am
[CA. SEPTEMBER 29, 1907]
Mr . Eandolph:-
X enclose a letter from Tom, which Mr. Edison
has read and on which he has made an endorsement to you. I
have told Tom to go ahead and pick out what he wants and 1 will
let you know later what the cost will he.
I’.Xi.D.
Oct. 2,1907
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[ FROM WILLIAM E. GILMORE ]
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Dr. J. L. leeper,
33 locust Ave.,
Deax Sir:
Arlington, N. J.
Oct. 4, 1907.
The Woman's Cluh of the Oranges, in which Mrs. Thomas
A. Edison is very much interested, is giving a lecture on the
morning of October 14th on France during the period of EouIb XIV,
and she is very anxious to obtain the ljbpfr of Borne lantern- slides
to make the lecture interesting. Your name haB been mentioned
to us by Messrs. Underwood & Underwood, with the suggestion that
wo communicate with you, as their representative thought possibly
you might bo able to facilitate Mtb. Edison' b work. I should
be glad if you will let me hear from you what, if anything, you
can do, and with thanks in advance for your reply, believe me to
be.
Yours very truly,
EDISON MANUFACTURING CD.
MAIN OFFICE AND FACTORY
ORANGE, N. J.
EDISON PRIMARY BATTERIES AND FAN MDTDR DUTFITS
EDISON PROJECTING KINETESEDPES AND FILMS.
Llewellyn Park,
West Orange, IT. J.
Dear Mrs. Edison:
I find that Messrs. Underwood & Underwood have
nothing in the way of stereopticon slides or pictures during the
period of Louis XIV.
Herewith is a catalogue of T. H. McAllister Co., 49 Nassau
St., New York, and I have turned down page showing all that they
have of the history of Prance in about. the center of the hook. I
do not know whether any of these slides would answer your purpose
or not, hut I wish you would go over them, and I can arrange to
have them sent out here if you want to see the slides themselves.
I understand that none of the slides are in color. All of this
work is specially done and it would he practically inpoBsible to
get them colored in time for your entertainment on the 14th.
I am also advised that a Dr. J. L. Deeper, 33 Locust Ave . ,
Arlington, N. J. , may have some slides of this particular period,
hut whether he will loan them or not I am unahle to say. I have
written him to-day to find out and just aB Boon as I hear from him
I will let you know. In the meantime,
in the attached catalogue and
suitable. Yours
Dear Mr. Bandolph:-
SD am enclosing receipt from Mrs. McCloskey
which Mr. Dyer received yesterday for $56.25 in payment of
the mortgage on Burlington property.
I also send you the check endorsed hy Dr. Blair,
v/hich you requested me to send you. Am sorry that this is
the only kind of a receipt I can give you, hut have done
everything possible to get one.
Oct. 5,1907.
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Dear Sir:-
iMrs . Willard came to see me this morning and left
the enclosed receipts of E. Anderson for $562. and of Edw.
Rigg for $114.59. She says that the other check for repairing
the roof has not been delivered yet, because the work has not
been completed. You will note that on Anderson's bill, the
cost of a pair of blankets, amounting to $8. has been added.
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Yours very truly,
J .3?. Randolph, Esq.,
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Dear Sir:-
I heg to hand you two hills which Mrs. Willard
left with me yesterday for repair work on the house at Burling¬
ton, amounting to $194. and $42.53 respectively. I wish you
would have these hills approved hy Mr, Edison and send me a
check for the same, in order that I may pay them. Mrs. Willard
tells me that this work had to he done in order that the
house may he hahitahle for the winter.
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Mr. Thomas. A.. Edison
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Mr. Thomas A. Edison, ' * vonrers, n. Y., Nov. 13, 1907.
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On the Slat, of Oct. I rented. a house at 202. Buena Vista Ke. ,
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and he has compelled us to withdraw the same from the market thereby losing
a opportunity to rent to some one else. Of oourse we can not and do
not propose to lose any rent or to bo imposed°by anyone and we therefore
ask that you take up this matter afr once or we shall be compelled to resort
to the courts for redress.
Thanking you in advance for your prompt attention, I remain.
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Dear Sir:-
Please find enclosed herewith the combined receipt and releas'eT of
Mottinger, as receiver, for §1250.00, in full satisfaction and payment of any a^d ^ 4<v
liability on the part of Mrs. Edison to creditors of the Company arising
ownership of stpfck in Aultman, Miller & Company, the settlement being thus completed.
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[ENCLOSURE]
STATE OF OHIO, f
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SUMMIT COUNTY, {
Peter J. little,
Plaintiff,
Aultman Miller & Co. ,
et al . ,
Defendants
Received of Wtina Miller Edison Twelve Hundred and Fifty
Dollars (01,230.00) in full settlement, satisfaction and payment
of any and all liability of said %fna Miller Edison as a stockholder
in the corporation of Aultman Miller & Company, and in considera¬
tion of the payment of the said amount, I, Arthur S. Mottinger, as
Receiver, and duly authorized in the premises by said court by its
order, and duly entered upon its journal on the 21st day of Novem¬
ber, 1907, do hereby forever release and discharge saidH(ina. Miller
Edison from any and all liability in the above entitled cause, and
from any and all liability existing or arising by reason of her 'owner¬
ship of shares of the capital stock of said Aultman, Miller & Company,
and forever release said^na Miller Edison from any and all claims
and demands of the plaintiff herein, and The First National Bank of
Chicago, Illinois, cross-petitioner herein, and the creditors of
Aultman, Miller & Company existing or arising out of or by reason of
the claims asserted in said cause; and I further agree to- duly re¬
lease said l&na Miller Edison upon the records of the court in this
IN THE COURT OF COMMON PIE AS.
RECEIPT AND REDEASE.
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Mrs. Blanche Travers Edison,
Mar shall ton, Del.
Dear Madam:
In reply to your favor of the 12th advising us
that you had forwarded your check for $40. for the credit
of your account, we beg to state that we do not appear to
have received the same. Several of your checks, includ¬
ing the $5 referred to in your postal, were recently pre¬
sented for payment. We tried to reach you at your old
jidcjp^ss, Stoneleigh Cburt, hut in the absence of any word
from you we were compelled to return them without payment.
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1907. Edison, T.A. - Name Use (D-07-14)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the
use of Edison's name, whether authorized or unauthorized, for advertising,
trademark, or other purposes. Included is correspondence with Francis W.
Jacobs, a businessman who was assigned the rights to manufacture a patent
medicine called Edison Polyform in 1879.
Approximately 30 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected consist primarily of letters from individuals with children
named after Edison.
Related documents can be found in the Legal Department Records.
Items concerning the use of the name "Thomas A. Edison, Jr." can be found
in D-07-12 (Edison, T.A. - Family).
sgarding the accompanying
John E !stfkn&oprfr, Esq.,''
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far Sir:/
I spoke t J Mr. Edison i
letter from Mr. Jacobs, which Wonly one of a great many
which I have received, as welj/as personal calls, from him.
I explained to Mr. Ediaoj^rfmt to pay any money to Mr. Jacobs
.this time and^ir^advance of a decision on the Polyform
case might be only a matter of charity. Mr. Jacobs is now
poor, sick and upftrrtvmat e, and Mr. Edison said that he would
let him have ^_J200^/ If you will give me a check for this
amount, I will send it^Uo him and get the proper receipt.
1 also explained Vo MrjEdi son that before he, went
South I lot Mr. Jacobs /hav^ioo^ personally, and Mr. Edison
said that he would paV this amount back to me. I enclose
Mr. Jacobs' receipt J d will be obliged if you will send me a
eheck> . /
•Jf ours very truly,
ELD/ARK.
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Francis W. Jacobs, Esq,,
52 New Street:,i
New York, N.Y.
Dear Mr. Jacobs;-
Yours of the 30th ult, was duly received
and I have mentioned the matter to Mr. Edison and I believe
that I can arrange to have him advance $200. on the under¬
standing that you will not ask for anything more until the
balance becomes due under the contract. In view of the
fact, however, that you have served notice on me that your
interest has been assigned to Mr. Abbott, I wish you would
obtain from Mr. Abbott the proper authority to make this pay¬
ment to you, and at the same time I wish you would have him
also ratify the payment of $100., which I personally made
to you on December 18th, 1906.
Yours very truly,
ELD/ABK. - •
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1907. Edison, T.A. - Unsolicited Correspondence -
Advice (D-07-16)
This folder contains routine correspondence suggesting improvements
in Edison's inventions, asking him for advice on technical matters, or
requesting his assistance in improving or promoting inventions. Also included
are unsolicited letters from inventors about their work.
A sample of less than one percent of the documents has been selected.
The selected items contain Edison marginalia.
■April 3rd, 1907.
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Hon. Thomas A. Edison,
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Dear Sir:
Sometimes lawyers have at least one practical idea. I
believe I have a practical and important one to greatly facilitate
the use of our great telephone service.
Being assured that you are fair and make due compensation for
just such services, I do notmhesitate to submit it for your
consideration. ■
An electric dial attached to the office phone with an indicator
to point to time a subscriber will be back at his desk when he
is absent and so attached to "Central" or to exchange in his
office by a like attachment will give her the information which
she can transmit to an inquirer.
For example: X leave my office at 12 o'clock for lunch and
set the indicator at 2 o'clock, "Central" when she plugs in will
get the flash on her indicator that I will return at that time and
so Snform the inquirer. It looks easy and almost indispensible
for the great rush of business, as it is now done.
I wish you would write me, as I have as indicated made a
confident of you in this matter, being assured that I will be dealt
with fairly, and duly compensated. This looks rich.
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They tell me that you are very graciouB towards inquirers,/
and I am going to ask you to have the e^new^JjJopa m^wi J
regard to the following points: J
I am searching for an alloy for platinum, with 7^f 0f platinum;
the said alloy should preserve the color of the platinum, if any¬
thing rendering it more white, arid should also he capable of resist¬
ing acids. Gan you tell me what metals I should put in the alloy
with the platinum so that the alloy will laminate, and also how X
should make the fusion.
Thanking you in advance, I am, Sir,
Yours very truly,
\ L, A. irespras.
Thomas Edison ,Esq. ,
Orange, N. .T.
Deal’ Sir:-
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Oan you favor me with a few minutes interview to -morrow
and look at a telegraph relay equipped with a new .arrangement of Hound¬
ing hoard and hoi*n after the phonograph idea, dispensing with the sounder.
1 have brought it from Kansas and would very much like your opinion.
Perhaps you remember my husband George H. Wadsworth of Sieve-
land, Ohio, who died a number of years ago?
Yours very truly,
P. S. Please telephone reply to 1905 Cortland.
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ed in the invest ipat. 1 on
of the phenomena. of what is called Sni ritual i sm. and 1^1 ong since
came to the conclusion that such phenomena balnnc tr^soienoe or rsv-
oholorv.anH are included in what I cal l"0osmi o 1norrv"or Dvnamics of
Life. The whole matter of a future life in a spiritual world is a
scientific Problem. I am certain in mv own mind that it can be ex¬
plained bv the application of scientific nrineiwles ,and 1 feel that
1 am so near to. the solution of the problem that it nav be done in
this wav.- viz: Pv the construction of a lens which will admit onlv
the ultra violet rays of lirht.. This rav lies bevond the ranee of
the human eve, and it onlv affects the hnotovranhic film, through the
impact of li^ht and color motion. The vibration of this rav is too
intense or too rapid for the human eye to follow its vibratory waves.
If we nan look into a darkened chamber through a: lens which will
e—cludo all other ra.vs of lirht.l think it is Possible for an” one
to see spirit, forms at anv time and at all times.
51pi ritualism is a rreat. fact., and an entirelv scientific one.
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Mr. Thomas A. Edison;
Dear sir,
a great saving to those usih^Mt"? Having" :
for experimental work and knowing you^ul
possibilities, if there are any.beoause of your knowledg.ee of i
physics. c^mj. dafc-tC. Wt^f e^pi^ tv ^
It is an insulator,, for heat and cold.^ 0 <L
praofioj^^jjjausa mean
of you facilities
[Uld recognize the
It is based of the!
'that vacuum' or nearly^abSelute i
is a nonconductor (or very^oor, depending on state^of vacuumland is
therefore a good insulator
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The simplest application would be a hollow plate df nonporous
material in which a high state of vacuum had been obtained and this
would be the insulator. .A small reftigerator made of two shells with
a vacuum between would cause the piece of ice plaoed therein to re¬
main alnost indefinitely in the solid condition. A oar of large
compartment made on this principle would mean much lessexpenditure
for ioe or refrigeration. Also a building withba vacuum sheathing
would be oooler in summer and warmer in winter.
If I am not mistaken your own eleotiio bulb is an example of
the above principle forthe rarifiedaiir conducts but little heat to
the globe.
If the above suggestion could be put to any use you are at
( 2 )
perfeot liberty to ubo it for we leave the Sixteenth on our oruise
aroxxnd the world which will take nearly a year and I will not be in
a position to experiment and if I oould it would not be of any
mafcbrial value to anyone.
Hoping to hear from you and trusting that 1 am no$ taking
to great a libertyl am,
Sinoerely,
Hospital Steward, U.S.M.
U. 5. S. Louisiana,
C/ P.M.Hew York.
The Southern Agency
AJjL> American Publications
I. CROSBY. PIIOPIIIKTOH vtfj
Kon. Thomas A. Edison,
’Test Orange, E. ,
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I understand that some months since there was published
in one o? the scientific? American publications a communication
or--in1rervi-ew“witlr-you-i-n-v;h-ich-it-v/a-B-statea_i:hat-7oiT-have-d:i-ffi-= -
- - oul-ty— i-n— *i-nding--£i-r-e-hr-iolt— l-i-ni-ngs— for-e-leot-rica-1— fur-naces— that - -
_ would stand the required heat and that you therein offered a _
_ considerable sum for the invention of a fire briclc that would
stand 7000 degrees Fahr. in such furnaces. Am I correctly in¬
formed about this offer and do you still desire to secure fire
brick that viill itand from 7000 to 10,000 degrees, liy reason for
arskiiig- is- 1 hat- X~ha ve recently invented a brick that^ilT~ttarid -
— : - the s e-high-d egr ees- o-f-tempe-r ature-a-nd-g-i-vas-av-i-den ue-of-^be-ing-en -
- - t i r a ly _s.a.t,i s fa c to r :;_ln__cv.e ry_o ther partioular in furnnen lining _
_ constructions. _ I am a poor man and desire to market this in- _ j
vention, either patentee or in any other reasonable form and at. as |
early day as practicable. Any suggestion that you can give me
to aid in securing this end will he most greatfully received. Kindly
) answer as possible, and oblige.
Yours very truly.
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1907. Edison, T.A. - Unsolicited Correspondence -
Personal (D-07-19)
This folder contains routine personal requests and fan mail. Included are
letters asking Edison for biographical and other personal information,
educational advice, information on deafness and lightning rods, charitable
contributions, loans, and other favors.
A sample of less than one percent of the documents has been selected.
The selected items contain Edison marginalia.
Passaic. N. J. April 22nd. ,1007.
Mr. Thtauis Edison:
0range,N. J.
Dear sir:
The writer begs to inquire if perhaps you are aware of any
experiments which have been made, whereby particles of 3and were
affected by sound waves or musical vibration', causing the grains to
form floral and geomBtrical designs.
If your goodself has made any experiments along this line and
tho same are a matter of record, I would indeed be grateful if you
will kindly inform me if possible, in which publication the article
appeared.
Thanking you for your kindness, in advance, I am
Very truly.
Passaic. lApcU 30th 1907.
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ank ^pti for your very prompt rospttwo to my / 6 .
fa. CA10-O ct^^-*-'» t^o-«v*^~e>, -
on of (Jiound v/aves upon particles of GaHfl.^ VO ^
inquiry concerninc the action of^ound v/aves upon^particles of sagj^^Ve^ e
I am a professional singer. Years ago I saw an account of JJie phono- , ' \ (
menu mentioned, that attracted my attention, and fever sifico I have I . -*
V/rfV. Cev^. lAcJtaw
desired to make certain experiments Nlong that liAo, for I holieve
.... . C ) odULs
that it is possible to obtain a seriesoTcomptox forms provided the sound i />
(ngs. <•'/ — G^-te
waves could be made to electrically act upon the sands (and possiWy ^ I
mineral atoms) so combined ns t?Ves^W ^nQjroup^tlf ^he*harmonieiK _ T
pr°ducod* ■ .
Pardon me please, if I say that ljiu£-|^t an inventor-
but merely a musician v/ho is sfczzzn 1 the scientific si^^ofmvv^t.
Jen s<|/woefully negHJected!
t too presumptuous, pormit m
isk that you kindly tell m
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1907. Exhibitions (D-07-22)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents concerning
electrical and industrial exhibitions. Among the items for 1907 are a request
for information from the New Jersey section of the Jamestown Tercentennial
Exposition and an exchange of telegrams regarding exhibits at an electrical
show in Montreal, Canada.
Approximately 20 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected include circulars and other information regarding the
Jamestown Exposition; letters announcing proposed expositions in
Argentina, France, and Russia; and documents that duplicate information in
selected material.
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1907. Fort Myers (D-07-23)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to
Edison's home and property at Fort Myers, Florida. Many of the letters are by
Edison's caretaker, Ewald Stulpner. Included are items regarding real estate,
well water, dock construction, renovations, and the planting of an avenue of
royal palms.
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items not selected include estimates by Proctor & Co. of New York for various
furnishings, letters offering real estate for sale, and items that duplicate
information in selected material.
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The Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
PASSENGER DEPARTMENT.
In accordance with request Contained in your message of the
21st inst. , heg to advise that we hafre reserved in name of Mr.Thoraas
Bdison, lower 5, car "PG", Atlant^ Coast line train #83, Pehy.Slst,
and drawing-room and sections 8,/ and 10, oar "PG", same train, Pehy.
26th, Jacksonville i[o Pt.lGrers./
urs truly,
ftern Passenger Agent.
« Office of Division Freight Agent
\ / Jacksonville. Fi.a. April 23, 1907b
Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
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Dear Sir c*yhc*£ b. >ue«-
Referring to conversation in this office to-day;
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pleasure in naming you rate on clay cfc>load qrom Riod Cree;
Fort Myers, Ela. $22.00 percaipof 24 , 000 pouhds minimtu^. ^
CKe. ^Dlv isiOT%^^a^'^ent-r^
Dear Sirs-
I herewith hand you deed .to the Travers property properly
recorded. This deed was only peturned from the Recorderds Office
yesterday. Hence the reason it has not been returned to you
sooner.
Very truly yours,
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Jacksonville. Fi.a. May lOth, 1907s
Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
Your letter of May 2nd: There is no freight Agency at
Rice Creek, Ela. hut the Utica Brick & Tile Co. at Palatka, Ela. will
furnish you prices of brick if requested.
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c/0 Thos. A. Edison,
Port Myers, Flo.
Dear Sir:
It is proposed to change such doors and windows as
are sh.own in plans A and B, drawn to scale in the Sdison and
Travers House.
All door frames and window frames including glass, studds,
wood trim both inside and out will be sent to you ready to bo
put in place.
From the plans showing measurements it will be possible to
construct such openings for doors and windows as are necessary
before the sashes and trim are received.
Drawing G shows single inch scale, detail of double French door,
arrangement.
2 double French doors appear in living Room
2 " " " " " Dining Room.
1 " " 11 " with 1 extra single door on either side
appear in end of Dining Room, as per detail shown at X.
1 set of double French doors appear, in end of Den.
1 solid panel door appears in clothes press.
1 " " <" " 11 Bath Room.
1 " " '• » .. Bejd ..
1 " " " " " Pantry.
proctor & Company
Importers of
Hntique anb fib o been SDvaperies
jfsbrics for Mali anb jfurnlturc (£overin<),
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DOORS; Contd.
3 set3 of singie French doors appear in Den.
4 " " " " " " " Living Room
1 " " " " " " " Bed • ’ "
as is shown in Drawing B, .as per detair figure 1,
Drawing 3.
’.V IN POP'S:
4 sash windows appear in large Bed Room, as are shown in
Drawing B, detail figure 1, Drawing D.
1 small Frasn^h'-r^ii'Wnt window appears in closest, as is shown
in Drawing B, detail figure 2, Drawing D.
1 " ?Egnc?y^^i»H4t window appears in Bath room, as is shown
in Drawing B, detail figure 2, Drawing D»
2 " Fxaja^^rwts.emant windows appear in Pantry, as is shown
in Drawing A, detail figure 3, Drawing D. ’
1 " Freru^GWemeHit window appears in "Ice Chest & Brooms"
as is shown in Drawing A, as per detail fig, 3, Drawing D.
Hali> Tfr-ewft'n - window appears in Kitchen pantry, as is
shown in Drawing A, as per detail figure 4, Drawing D.
1 small Fnonch window appears in Bath room, as is shown
in Drawing B, detail figure2. Drawing D.
f " F*^nhli_£a^fc^Sl_windovfs appear in Bed Room, as is shown
in Drawing B, detail figure 3, Drawing D.
Iproctor & Company
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Jfabrlca tot ZKIlnll anb jfurmture Covctltin,
lEmbrolOctlca . Hapcetneo . ®rfcntnl IRiwa
ttetepbone, 4476 Obetaea. Ulcw JDOl'Il, .100
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Placement of Studds.
DOORS t
Double French casement doors, length 9' 8", height 8' 2"
single door at either side, length 14' 8", height 8' 2"
Singlfe £ casement door length 4' 8" height 8' 2".
Solid panel doors length 3’ 4", height 7' 2".
WINDOWS:
Sash windows as per detail figure 1 Drawing D, width 4' 2"
Height 6' 7".
French casement windows, as per detail figure 2, Drawing D,
width 3' 4", height 2' 3".
" casement windows as per detail figure 3, Drawing D,
width 3' 4", height 3’ 1"-.
" casement windows as per detail figure 4, Drawing D,
Width 1' 10", height 3' 1".
144 5tb Bvcmie,
Met. I9tb & 20tb Streets.
flbroctor & Company
Importers ot
Hntique anb flftobent IDvaperies
Jfabrlcs for TWlnll anb jfurntture Coverlno,
Embrotbctles . TTapcsttles . ©rlental IRufls
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EDI SOM & TRACERS HOUSES:
As instructed by Mrs. Thomas A. Edisofa, we are sending you herewith
plans and details of such alterations as are to be carried out in
the Edison £■ Travers Houses.
It is proposed that Sin order to save time we send you exact
measurements of all openings for new doors and windows. In so
much as we are sending you wood-framing, sashes and glass, complete
and ready to set in place, the studds required for same may he
placed according to measurements which appear on Sheet 3.
The glass panes will be shipped to you in piece with wood
stripping necessary to hold the same in place, also metal hinges,
door stops, and transom lifts.
The studds to be used are 2" x 4" ; double studds being placed
for all doors, single studds for all windows.
THE EDISON HOUSE:
It is proposed to throw the present Sitting Room and Drawing Room
of the Edison House together, tearing out such partitions as appear
between the two, as is shown in Drawing B
proctor & Company
Umpottera of
Hntique anb tlftobern ^Draperies
jfabtics tot HUlall anb Jfurnltutc Coverliifl,
jBmbrolberleo . Hapeatcles . ©dental lRiios
telephone, 4478 CbeUea. THCW j^Ot'l!, . 100
It Is proposed to transform the present kitchen wing of the
Edison house into bed room, bath and clothes press for Mr. & Mrs.
Edison, as is shown in Drawing B.
jproctor 61 Company
Importers ot
Slntique anb Hlboberrt S>vapenes
^fabrics toe Uflall ant) ^furniture (Covering,
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The interior ^Stairway which now appears in the corner of t’
kitchen Wing is to be torn away, the exterior Stairway being substituted
ins* ead, ..Ians and details of which appear on Drawing G. The above
* ;.ioned stairway is to be constructed by yourself, conf crying t. . ,
pland and measurements sent you by us. All fittings for clothes
press are to be shipped to you complete and ready to put in place.
The fireplace in Bed Room, as is shown in plan in Drawing B
is to be constructed by yourself, Prom I.irs, Edison we understand,
t!,o brick flu - exists. As soon as such chimney breast work is
constructed, kindly -send us measurements thereof, in order that we
may send you detail drawings for the final finish.
WIDENING OF VERANDA:
The Veranda on the back of the Edison House, is to be widened
to a length of 15’, making it lineable with the fron t of the
present Kitchen Wing.
Roof construction is to correspond exactly with the 14' Veranda
which appears on the other side of the house.
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144 Stb avenue,
met. I0tb & 20tb streets.
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proctor & Company
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Hntique anb flftobern ^Draperies
Jfnbtlca tot 'Gllall anb ^furniture Covetlno,
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ttelepbone, 5823 ffltametcp.
THew Iporl?,
100
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TRAVERS HOUSE t
r/IDTNINO OF VERAMDA;
All verandas around the Travers* House are to be widened
to a width of 14' 3", to correspond exactly with the Rdison House,
the verandas on the back being 15', in order that it will be
lineable with the front of the- kitchen wing.
The roof construction is to correspond exactly with that
of the Edison House*
PERGOLA:
7e will send to you at a later date, plans and instructions
for the erection and flooring construction of the Pergola, which is
to connect the Travers & Edison Houses . All woodwork of said
Pergola will be supplied by us, shipped to you in piece, ready to put
in place. , .
The floor construction which is to be of 9~" terra cotta tiles
laid in ceijient is to be carried out by yourself-, as per specification.
The tiles of said flooring will be shipped to you by us.
Yours truly.
E. fallick.
PROCTOR & CO.
1907. Mining - General (D-07-25)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to
mining and ore milling. Some of the items pertain to the licensed use of Edison
crushing rolls by a group of Chicago investors. Also included are letters
enclosing ore samples or inquiring about Edison's interest in mines and ores.
Approximately 10 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected consist primarily of unsolicited inquiries, some of which bear
perfunctory Edison marginalia, and items that duplicate information in selected
material.
I enclose two additional reports on Messrs.
Nusbaum and Klotz, and also a letter from my brother Phil
in reference to Mr. Nusbaum. I should say that these men
are all right.
P.L.D.
January 11th, 1907.
[ENCLOSURE]
Mr. Frank L. Dyer,
c/o Edison Labratory,
Orange, N. J.
My dear Frank
Excuse delay in answering your favor of 2nd inst.
Ur. ..Aaron E. Nusbaum is a friend of mine of several years standing, is
Treas. of the Phoenix Horse Shoe Co. with about #400,000. invested in that
Company, a man of very high standing and considered to be a very bright
man, easily worth a couple of millions of dollars, anything he says you
oan depend upon and any kind of an arrangement he makes with you you will
find he will live up to it absolutely. He is director in several banks
in Chioago and am not sure that he may not hold some higher offioe in one
or more.
With kindest regards to Mr. Edison, to whom you oan Bhow this letter,
and love for yourself and family.
Yours,
[ENCLOSURE]
NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH CO.
ORANGE, N.J.
F. L. DXF!R .
We are handing you herewith, two reports just
received 'on the Chicago parties.
Do you desire anything further in connection with thi3
matter?
DVR
F. K. DOIBEER^T}
[ENCLOSURE]
piEIVET)
XvN nmJY
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517 The Rookery.
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NUSBAUK A. E. - - - - - -Capita';
Aaron E. age ' 42 married,/"’ = . :
He has been known^ln ^his /city ‘ gink - the eighties and
was formerly in a wholesalp, Menjs -Eurligs i *iness as Nusbauu &
CoV In 1893 he joined Sears'. Roebuck i&Co". , and he came fcieir
Treas. from Which he withdrew in 1901 with $1,000,000 for
His interest it was said.W ’■ A ■' ,• • ’
Fe has hepn interested; in several enterprises, among which , '
is The American pestauraiit Co; , in which ht-is a stokcholder —
and directors “and 151904 hecme;,Tiieas. of die Phoenix
Hor'Beshoe Co.', with off ^de at; this 'address ,and factor ies at v
Joliet, Ill. and _ Poughke’epsie^H.Y. j; The 'Company i has $1,500,000
authorized capital and is^repjreieiited in .high credit.
J ..7 7 Nushaum 'is^egar4e,dia63’a^'ahle,?busin|B8 man,’ correct in
"character , prompt in 'keeping,, oblig at ions, £ an li/worth from $500,000
•to $750,000. \yr • j *
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W iH send later. ,!; •-* ‘ :
■ - -Jany. 15,1906.-
237— 1-3-07-JPrim.
KIiOTZ, CHAS. A..
Age about 40 mrii."
- - - CHICAGO, Tn,
Room 303,-184i ,la Salle St.
Mr. Klot^ is a lawyer ;byv profession and .was- formerly of the
law firm Elotz:& ilandy kt Room 312 ithis: building , • He also acted
for eight years aB attorney for Dolese & Shepard Co. Crushed Stone
In August 1906 he; became. Vice President and general S'enager of the
United States Crushed $t one Co a now company formed at that 'date
with paid up capital x6f=i$25b, 000. Mr. Elotz gave up his law pract¬
ice at that time and nowde votes his entire time arid attention to
the business of the U. S* Crushed stoned Co. He is highly spoken of
personally and while not regarded; as a man of means is considered
financially responsible^ f or such purchases as he may make. He is
believed to be in receipt ; of a %0ocL; income. HeJ.s, not known to ask
credit or favors. ; &
[ENCLOSURE]
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THIS AGREEMENT made and entered into this ('*'')
day of February, A.D., 1907, by and between THOMAS A
EDISON of, Llewellyn Parle, West Orange, County of Essex
and State of New Jersey, party of the first part, and
irOISE DREOTUS, AARON E. OTSBAUlt and CHARLES A. KLOTZ, all
of the City of Chioago, County of Cook and State of
Illinois, parties of the Second pert,
WITNESSETH:
THAT WHEREAS the party of the firet part has
obtained, and has filed applications for, certain letters
patent of the United States relating to apparatus adap¬
ted for the crushing and reduction of rook, as follows :
_ LETTERS PATENT
Crushing Rolls, No. 567,187, 3ept.3, 1896
Method of Breaking Rock, No. 672,616, April 2?., 1901
Apparatus for Breaking Hock, Ho. 672,617, April 2b, 1901.
Grinding or Crushing Rolls, No. 674,057, May 14, 1901.
Apparatus for Screening Pulverised Material, No. 675, 057,
. May 28, 1901.
APPUflATIOWS -POn laTTERS EAT BIT
Giant Rolla, filed January 13, 1903, serial Ho. 138, 813,
Screening Elates, filed August 1, 1903, serial lJo. 107, 929.
Crushing Rolls, filed September 7,1908, Berial Ho.333,G07.
AND WHEREAS the parties of the secbna part aro
desirous of aoquiring an exclusive license under said
patents and applications i'or ths following territory:
(1) The territory included within a radius of
seventy-five miles from the County Building in the City of
Chicago, State of Illinois;
(2) The territory included within a radius of
seventy-five miles from the County Building in the City of
Milwaukee, State of Wisconsin;
(3) The territory included within a radius of
seventy-five miles from the County Building in the City of
St. l/ouis. State of Missouri;
(4) Any quarries within one mile from
the shores of lake Michigan und tributary to tho markets of
Milwaukee or Chicago;
AND WHEREAS the said party of tho first part in
willing to grant such exclusive license for eaicl territory
for the purpooo only of crushing limestone (but no other
material} for all ubob, except for direct uso in the manu¬
facture of cement;
HOW THEREFORE in consideration of the premises and
of the mutual covenants and agreements hereinafter set
forth, the parties hereto agree as follows:
First: The party of the first part hereby grants to
the parties of the sedond part and their assigns, an ex¬
clusive licenso^und§rriaiE patents, ana suoh patents
as may hereafter be granted on any of said applications,
for
(1) The torrltory lnoluded within a radius of
seventy -five miles from the County Building in the City of
Chicago, State of Illinois;
(2) Tho territory included within a radius of
seventy-flive miles from the County Building in the City of
Hilwaukee, State of Wisconsin;
(3) The territory included within a radius of
seventy-five miles from the County Building in the City of
St. I,ouis, State of Missouri; and
(4) Any quarries located within one mile of the
shores of Lake Michigan, providing suoh quarries shall be
tributary to the markets of Milwaukee or Chicago.
Second: The parties of tho second part agree to install
or cause to be installed
^in Racine County, State of Wisconsin, or in Cook County,
State of Illinois, as soon as practicable hereafter a com¬
plete stone crushing plant, embodying such of tho patented
or unpatented inventions as they may deem necessary in order
that a test may bo made to determine the efficiency and
economy of suoh patented or unpatented apparatus, which
tests, however, shall bo ooncluded by January 1st, 1909,
during which Bald toBt period the said parties of the
second part agree to pay to tho party of the first port,
his heirs and assigns, a royalty of one cent (1 fl) per
cubic yard on all stone orushed in said apparatus in said
stone crushing plant. .
Third;
It ie further understood and agreod that after
January 1st, 1909, the partios of the Booond part shall
pay to the party of tho firet part, his heirs and assigns,
subject to the cc.nditione hereinafter sot forth, tho num
of three oonta (3 ft) per cubic yard on all atone cruehed
in any plant constructed by the parties of tho second part
under aald letters patent or applications therefor in
said territory.
Fourth; It is further understood and agreed that the
parties of the second part shall, and said purtiOB of the
second part covenant to use all proper and reasonable
efforts, consistent with good business Judgment, to intro¬
duce within said territory other plants embodying Buoh of
tho said patented or unpatentod machinery as they may doom
necessary and as the demand for such machinery may arise
or as tho market conditions in connection with the sale of
crushed stone may require.
Fifth; It is further understood and agreed that if,
on or after January 1, 1909, the said parties of the
second part or their assigns conclude that the payment of
three cents (3 fi) a cubic yard royalty becomes unduly large,
they or their aosigns may elect to relinquish their right
to an exclusive license and pay tho party of the firBt part
a royalty of one and one-half cents ( l-l/2 /) a cubic
yard on al}. stone crushed in said crushing plants within
said territory, or they or their assigns may elect to re¬
tain tho exclusive license and to refor tho readjustment of
. to
tho royalty ^isu'bitration, the parties hereto or their rasped*
•tiv'e assigns each selecting an arbitrator and tho two ar¬
bitrators so selected choosing a third, hhd tho decision
of tiny two of said arbitrators shall be aooepted by the par¬
ties hereto or their respective assigns, as final, but in
4.
no oaaa shall tha right. ol’ eleoiiion to submit tha matter
to arbitration bo exercised unlosa as the result of im¬
proved apparatus or processes invented or used by tha
competitors of tha parties of the second part of their
asaigna, tha market prioe of crushed rook iB so reduced as
to make the payment of a three cent royalty commercially
Impossible.
Sixth; It is further understood and agreed that the
license heroin granted shall be restricted absolutely to th<
crushing of lime-stone, as so denown in the vicinity of
Chicago, Illinois, for use as ballast, road making, concrete
and othor industrial purposes, but not including the crush¬
ing of lirae-stone for direct use in cement manufacture,
nor of any other material, which UBea the party of the
first part reserves to himself, his heirs and assigns*,
Seventh; It is further understood and agreed that
the party of the first part shall give to the purtieo of
the second part the benefit of his advice and experience
in the designing of said plant and shall loan the parties
of the second part, without cost, ouch necessary drawings
and-patterna of the raaohlnory as he may now or hereafter
have in his possession, and the said party of the first
part will also permit tho parties of the second part to
send a draughtsman of their selection to the Edison
laboratory at West Orange, Mow Jersey, where tho necess¬
ary drawings for the orection of tho said plant can be
made, and will assist the said draughtsman in the de¬
signing of the said plant as far au possible.
D.
t u/riJU "ate.
He-
It ia further understood and agreed that the
| said royalty for each month ia to be paid on or before
the 10th of the Succeeding month, and such hooka of the
parties of the second part as may he necessary to de¬
termine the amount of atone crushed in any licensed plant#
I sha11 be °Pen to inspection to the party of the first part
r his representatives, at all reasonable times. If the
II party of the first part so elects, the royalties herein pay.
able shall he based on the shipping receipts of the rail¬
road or othor transportation companies by which the product
oi the plaits licensed under this agreement may be handled,
and for the purposes of this agreement, in case of such
election, the total amount of the crushed stone shipped
j from any such licensed plants in any month will ha consid¬
ered us the output for that month and on which said royalti-j
I es shall be payable.
£i££&s party of the first part hereby covenants
and agrees with the parties of the second part not to
grant to any person, firm or corporation, during the exist¬
ence of the present contract and so long as the exclu¬
sive license herein granted a&all be retained, any
license or territorial right under said patents, v/i thins,
the territory aforesaid in connection with the crushing of
lime-stone, but the party of the first part reserves the
right to grant licenses or territorial assignments under
said patents for th» crushing of all other materials as welij
as the crushing of lime-stone for direct use in the manu
facturo of cement. The party of the first part also agrees
at his own expense, to prosecute all infringers of said
patents, within said territory, so an to thereby pre¬
serve the exclusive rights hereby granted to the parties
6.
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of the second part. The party of tho first part also
agrees, at his own expense, to defend any suits that may
he brought, against the parties of tho second part for the
infringement of any patents 'by the use of said patented
apparatus. If, in any suit for infringement of said
patents within the territory aforesaid^ any recovery is
secured by way of profits or damages, tho party of the
first, part agrees to turn over the same to the parties of
the second part for damages or loss of profits to them
by reason of such infringement. Provided however, that
in case the amount of such recovery is in excess of three
cents per cubic yard, for the use of the infringing up-
paretus, then in such event the surplus of the reoovory
sliall he rotained by tho party of the firs* part in
partial compensation for prosecuting such infringement.
And in the event of any suit or suits on any of said pat¬
ents based on infringement within said territory, the
parties of the second part agree to assist the party of
the first part in ail reasonable and proper ways in con¬
nection with the prosecution of said suit or suits.
Tenth: The license herein granted and the royalty
herein payable shall continue so long as such patents used
on saidi .apparatus hy the parties of the second part, their
assigns and sub-licenscasniay remain in force. If said pater ts
are declared invalid hy the final decree of a court of com¬
petent Jurisdiction, then tho royalties herein, contemplated
shall cease and dot.ermino.
Eleventh; The party of the first part agroes to give
the parties of the second part and their assigns, so long
as this contract may remain in force, tho benefit of all im-
prevoments that ho may rnako, whether the same are patented
or not, relating to the apparatus for crushing stone or
designed for direct uso in connection therewith which the
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said party of the first part agrees to do without any
further compensation than the royalties herein mentioned.
Twelfth: It is further understood and agreed that the
parties of the second part, and their assigns, shall
he permitted in advertising or printed matter to refer
to the fact that the apparatus used hy them is manufac¬
tured under the Thomas A. Edison patents, hut no rep¬
resentation shall he made hy trhioh the impressibn may he
created that the party of the first part is connected with
the parties of the second part in any other oapaoity than
as a licensor.
Thirteenth: It is further understood and agreed
that the said parties of the second part or their assigns
may grant sub-licenses under this contract, within said
territory, subject to the terms, to all restrictions
and to all the appropriate conditions hereof, it being in¬
tended that the parties og the second part shall have
the right to permit other parties within said territory to
use said patented apparatus subject to the terms hereof. II
is understood and agreed however, that in case any sub¬
licensee are granted hy the parties of the second part or
their assigns all sub-licenses shall provide that the party
of the first part shall reoeive therefrom the same royalty cs
herein provided, namely, three centB per cubic yard, with¬
out the privilege of reduction thereof; and the parties
of the seoond part further agree that they will grant no
sub-lioenses without first giving to the party of the
first part, his heirs and assigns, a written assurance in
each case to guarantee, Becure and pay to the party of the
first part, his heirs and assigns, the said royalty of
three cents per oubio yard for all Btone crushed by each
sub-licensee. It is understood and agreed that sub-lioensns
8.
I may bo grunted by the parties of the second part to the
United states Crushed Stone Company, u corporation of
Illinois, or Oio Universal C melted Stone Company, a cor¬
poration of Illinois, or to both of said corporations,
in which BUb-lioensea may bo included the provisions of
the Fifth Section hereof under which the maximum royulty
oi three cents per cubic yard muy bo reduced by arbitration
in the event of the contingency therein recited; but with
all other sub-licenses norm slrnll be granted on any other
teraa tlion tonne such as will nocure the payment to the
party of the first part, his hoi re and assigns, of a fixed
and uniform royalty of three cents per cuhio yard. It is
alno understood and agreed that in the cuse sub-licenses an
granted to either of the two corporations, last above
referred to, then, in the event that the exclusive lioenae
is relinquished by the parties of tho second part, or
their assigns, as provided in tho Fifth Section hereof,
the royalty payable by said corporation or corporations
to tho party of tho first part, his heirs or assigns, shall
be reduced to one and one-half (1-1/2) cents per cubic
yard; but no ouch reduction shall bo permitted in the oa»e
of any other sub-lioense. It in understood and agreed
thut all sub-licenses shall be granted in the mimes of,
and executed by, tho said Dreyfus, Uuabaum and Klotz,
parties of the second part, or their assign o as hereinafter
provided, or in the ouae of the death of one or two of
said parties, by the survivors or survivor. But in no
oase, shall any sub-lioonso hereunder be grunted by less
than all three parties of the second part, except in caee
of death or assignment of this agreement, as hereinafter
provided.
9,
Fourteenth: It is further understood and agreed
that should the party of the first part, his heirs or
assigns, have the opportunity of granting a lioense for
the ubc of the patented apparatus to a third party within
the territory included within a radius of seventy-five miles
from tho County Building of the City of St. Louis, the
party of the first part shall so notify the said parties
of the second part or their assigns in writing, of that
fact, and specifying the location, and the parties of the
second part or their assigns, shall have the option of elec¬
ting within thirty days to cons tract a plant within said St.
Louie territory ;and in the event of their failure to exec-
clee the option so offered, then tho party of the first
part, his heirs or assigns, shall be free to negotiate
with any person, firm or corporation, for licenses under
said patents in said territory. Pr oyided howovor. that
should the parties of tho second part, or their assigns,
exorcise the option to construct a plant within the St.
Louis territory, thoy covenant and agree to complete and
oommance operating the same v.ithin one year from the date
of their election to exercise such option; and upon thoir
failure to construct and operate the said plant within
said period, the exclusive license to tho parties of the
second part or their assigns shall, so far as the St. Louis
territory is concerned, bo at an end, and the party of the
first part, his heirs and assigns shall be free to negotiat3
with any peroon, firm or corporation, for licenses within
said St. LouIb territory.
Fifteenth; TbiB agreement is personal to the
parties of the second part, the party of the first part
having confidence in their ability, integrity and finanoiaJ
responsibility. This agreement is not assignable by the
parting of the second part, except hy an assignment mode
jointly by ull the said part loo of the second part, or in
the Ouse of t)i« death of one or wore of the said purtioo
of the second part, by their survivors or survivor, and
no such assignment shall be made, except to the United
States Crushed S tone Company, a corporation of Maine, which
has been organised by the parties of tho second part.
Provided, however. that in the event of the assignment of
this agreement, the said corporation shall assume all the
stipulations and covenants muds by the parties of the eeeonc
part for the protection of the party of tlio first part.
ijixtoonih: Thin agreement shall course and determine
and may be cancelled by the party of tho first part, his
heirs and assigns, for any of the following reasons:
(a) The failure of tho parties of the second part
or their assigns, t,o pay the royalties heroin provided,
(b) The breach of any of its conditions, covenants,
or stipulations, by tho parties of the second part, or
tlioir assigns,
(«) The death of all the parties of the second part,
provided no assignment of the agreement is made, an above
provided.
But the agreement shall not be formally cancelled for fail¬
ure to pay the royalties as above provided, or for breach
of iiny of its conditions, covenants, or stipulations,
until the party of the first part, hie heirs or assigns,
shall first notify the parties of thu second part, or their
assigns, in v/riting, of tho default or breach, specifying
11.
the, same, and thereupon the parties of the second part, or
their assigns, shall huvo the opportunity within sixty days
thereafter of paying tho amount of tho royalties oo in de¬
fault, or of correcting such breach, in which case the
agreement shall continue in force and effect, until termin¬
ated for -tiles cuuiio or for other reasons. And, in the
event of tho cancellation or termination of this agree¬
ment, tho party of the first part, his .heirs or assigns, .
ahull not in any way waive any rights, cither at law or
in equity, to sue for and recover damages for its breach
or violation or for any other appropriate relief or recov¬
ery. But in the event of its termination, the parties of
tho second part, for themselves and their ausigna, cove¬
nant and agree with tho party of the first part, hlu heirs
and assigns, tlv.it the party of the first part, his heirs
or assigns, may bo substituted in the place and stead of
tho parties of the second part, or their assigns, in any
su'o-liocnaeu that may bo grunted hereunder, and receive
all the profits and advantages of such aub-lioenaeu that
would otherwise accrue to tho parties of tho second part,
or their assigns,
IK V/IIK53S WQKR50J1, tho parties hereto have Here¬
unto set their hands and seals to four (4) origin ala, tho
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a large mine in Maine filled with Molybdenum. Probably you know what
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granite in which it is embedded. If you feel interested enough to look
into it, or see if there is any chance for you to separate him from some
of his money, let me know, and I will bring him over to see you.
Commodore Benedict is asking me every day why you do not answer
a letter he wrote you sometime ago when you were away, and your
Secretary acknowledged the receipt of it.' PleaBe write him some sort
of a letter, so ;I will not have to be apologizing to him.
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14th in regard, to your special advertisement of Darby Mine in
Township of Coleman for sale, which we observe is still being pub¬
lished, we shall be very glad to have you favor us with authority for
one or more insertions in the event that further publioity is necessary.
The Manufacturers' Record, we are confident, is able to render
you very desirable service because its space 1b used with excellent
results by other advertisers from time to time for similar announce¬
ments, and you will observe from the copy we are sending you sep¬
arately that the character of the paper fits it for your use. The
Record appeals to a class of people that it will pay you to reach.
In the letter mentioned above we quoted you advertising rates
as follows: three inches
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Hoping to have your favorable reply, we are.
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SIBLEY QUARRY CO.
91/fy. Wayne, ^o., ^//cc/-X)qg. 5th, 1907.
' Lot tor #38-3.
Hr. Emil Her ter,
C/o Edison Laboratory,
Orange, H. J.
My dear Hr. Herter: — .
V/e enclose herewith a couple of photographs which almost
match upj although they were not taken with that intention, which will
give you a partial idea of the lay of the land where our rolls are
installed.
Overhead you will see the home-made travelling crane which
we improvised; directly in the middle of the upper picture you will
see the big Gates Crusher formerly in use; below that you will notice-
the track on which we brought the rolls to their location; on a level
with the track and to the right of the picture you will see a hole in
the concrete about 30 inches wide and 4 feet high through which the
lower side of the drive belt runs; the lower part of the picture
shows the hole in which the machine is erected, the sides of the exca¬
vation having been lined with concrete; the Wide space below the
track in the center of the picture is where the 46 degree apron con¬
veyor runs from the bottom of the machine up underneath the car, in
front of the old Crusher, through the upper floor- and which spills
the rock from the rolls into the old Crusher. You can see the end
pillow-block our main transmission shaft, which will give you an
idea of the location of the shaft^by looking through the chains of the
righthand chain hoist and directly above the lower block. Both the
upper and lower.' sides of the belt run directly through the two posts:
Sibley qijarry oo.
S/tUey, Wayue y^ic/i.
Dec. 5th, 1907.
Mr. Emil Mortar,
Page • 2 .
supporting the stringer of the crane track in the upper righthand
corner of the picture. These posts have been cut away*
The weights given underneath the photographs were
obtained by weighing the different parts as they came here on the cars
and then weighing the cars light. As a matter of interest we found
that the loss in metal, due to the machine w.ork, was E.8 tons for
both shafts and both mandrels.
Ne thought: that Mr. Edison and you might be interested in
having these photographs.
Yours very truly.
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SIBLEY QUARRY COMPANY,
% ENCLOSURES.
Saltillo, Coah, Max. Deo. 36th. 1907.
Mr. Thomas A. Edison, £<^,0 CcdL^ ,
Menlo Park, N.J. - , , ^ r- •
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Dear Sin- [uJjuZC ‘jricCx jt.
I have in my possession a^ few samples of) a mineral ore which have y/.
a very peculiar effect when two of the rocks are slightly rubbed or strucA>
together. On being rubbed, small globules of fire are obtained, which have
the appearance of sparks made by carbons -of electric light lamps when- they
come in contact. These globules are also formed if the rocks are rubbed
under water, and the pecullrlaty of the effect of the rocks have decided
me to address you, in. order that if you consider it of any use for me to
send you some samples, I will do so.
Yours truly.
My address Is.
J. M. Toyin',
c/o Mex. Natl R.R.Co.
Saltillo, Coah.,
Mexico,
Dear Mr. Edison : —
On my arrival at Joplin I learned that there are no smelt¬
ing works in Joplin and that the largest smelters were the Edgar
Zinc Co. at Cherryvale, Mo. and Lanyon Zinc Co. at lola, Mo., both
situated in the natural gas districts; I also learned there were
two Chemists in Joplin: Wesley Petreans, Cotton Building and
W. P. Cleveland, 621 Main Street. X then went and saw the bank
people and learned that both Chemists were reliable, but that
Cleveland had had the longer experience and was probably better
posted.
I went first and saw Petreans who said he had made
analysis of the Joplin ores for. several years and quite a number
for cadmium and had found from trace, up to had heard of
samples going as high as 1^> but had never seen any of them. He
knew nothing about zinc ores from Arkansas or other districts.
I then went and saw Richard Kevins, Jr., Mining Engineer
and from him learned that in his experience, covering several years
in Joplin district, he had not come across any ores high in cadmium,
although it was possible they existed, but he thought if found they
would not be in the Joplin district, as the ores there were quite
uniform. He believed the. chances were better in the Arkansas dis¬
trict.
Then saw Cleveland and found him quite well posted, also
that he had done some work on cadmium when Chemist for the Edgar
Zinc Co., but had a fire, which stopped the work and it had never
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been resumed. He got his books and looked up the old records and
from assays made of ten samples of Joplin ores which covered the
district, the lowest was .left and the highest ,34ft and cadimum and
the average of the ten about .22$; he also said of the hundreds of
samples of Joplin district ores he had assayed, he had never seen
an ore go as high as .500$ in cadmium. He also showed me a record
of experiments made on spelter, from which the cadmium was concen¬
trated up to 2,35$, then re -concentrated a second time up to 3$ and
a third time up to 6ft, but would not tell me how it was done. 1
arranged with him to take the work up again and agreed to write him
fully on my return home, exactly our wishes; he, in the meantime,
to take the matter up experimently and to be in a position to write
us definitely just what he can do, as soon a3 he hears from us, I
made considerable inquiry about Cleveland and he is well 3poken of.
He was at one time connected with New Jersey Zinc Co, Cleveland
says the Joplin ores are all sulphides and the ores from Southeast
Missouri and Arkansas are carbonates; he did not know which kind
was most liable to carry cadmium. He also was quite skeptical as to
the Arkansas deposits, but did not know much about them, except
frdm hearsay.
His scheme for getting the cadmium out was as follows;
provided he could concentrate up to 6$ cadmium: Take 2,000 pounds
of zinc alloy containing 94$ zinc and 6$ cadmium. This would take
3,000 pounds sulphuric acid to work it, with results about as
follows:
2,000 lbs. zinc at 4-l/2 cts. 90.00
3,000 " sulphuric acid, say 20.00
Working IQ.qq
Cost
$120.00
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Carried forward: cost
$120.00
The above would produce about 4,650 lbs. of sulphate of zinc
worth 2 cts. per lb. 9S>0(?
cost 120 lbs. cadMum ^27 0Q
making cost per pound 22-1/2 cts.’ for cadmium.
The above depending upon whether he could concentrate up
to say tft, which experiment he was to repeat at once. Cleveland
believes if an ore high in cadmium could be found, that the smelters
could work it alone.
X also arranged for him to collect and send us on a lot
of samples of the various Joplin ores. He will make assays for
cadmium at $2.50 per determination,
I then saw Mr. lanyon of the Lanyon Zinc Co. and learned
that the zinc people look on cadmium about same as iron blast
furnace men do on phosphorus, and that there is a limit over which
they do not like the ores to go. He did not think the spelter con¬
tained enough cadmium to make it practical to get it out, although it
would be of advantage to the zinc to have it out. I think the price
I mentioned ($500.00 per ton) for cadmium greatly interested him
and he promised to take the matter up with his head Chemist and
Smelter.' I also learned from Mr. Lanyon that the ores of Illinois
and Wisconsin do not carry cadmium; this confirming information
given me by Mr. Hegeler. Mr. Lanyon lives in Wisconsin and has
worked both ores.
I then asked him about the ores of Arkansas; he said he
had watched the developments there for ten years or more and had
been over the district twice himself and had had his men go over it
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several times and he believed the district was largely made up of
small pockets of ore and doubted if a large and successful zinc mine
would ever be found in that district. He had seen samples of ore
from that district that looked as if they would go high in cadmium
and thought prospects were better of finding what we wanted there,
although we must not forget that deposits might prove small.
Arkansas had great variety in minerals.
1 then started out to find someone who knew something
about Arkansas deposits and run down a Mr. Myrick, a Mining Surveyor;
from him I learned the center of the Arkansas field was at Rush,
Marion County, also Yellville., same County and that the ore from
the Morning Star Mine went high in cadmium; that all. the surround¬
ing mines went h%hin cadmium and for that reason were not desirable;
he did not know how high they went, but knew it was much higher
than the Joplin ores.
John Reid, 370Rront Streew, Memphis, Tenn. is President
and George W. Chase, Rush, Marlon County, Mo. was Capt. of the
Morning Star Mine. X also learned that Thomas Morgan, #60 State
Street, Boston, Mass, was interested in the mine. I was unable
to get further information about this district, except the fact
that the nearest railroad to the Morning Star Mine was seventy-five
(75) miles and- to reach the mine I would have to go via stage from
West Plains, Mo. I also learned there was a new zinc oxide plant at
West Plains and so decided to go there. Before leaving Joplin I
saw several other people and confirmed information X have already
given.
At West Plains met Mr. Gordon, Manager of Oxide Works. He
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has been all over the United States in every zinc district and said
he was trying to find district where cadmium was lowest in the ore
and that ores from West Plains district were lowest and ores from
Morning Star district the highest, but could not give analysis. I
obtained sample from Morning Star Mine, which I will deliver.
Gordon said he believes if prospector was put at wor^k in Arkansas,
we would find what we want, as he was under the impression he had
seen samples that looked as if they went high in cadmium.
1 asked several people whether low zinc grade ore carried
more cadmium than high grade; they all. said that the higher the
zinc, the higher the cadmium generally, but might be some excep¬
tions. Gordon thought we could find ores low in zinc and high in
cadmium. Gordon also said there is only. trace of cadmium in the
nres of Colorado, Wisconsin and Illinois and Pennsylvania. In lead
Hill district in Arkansas he thought the yellow colored ore high
in cadmium was generally thrown out and quite a quantity of ore
containing considerable cadmium could be had from ore already
mined. No. considerable amount of ore has been shipped from
Arkansas, owing, to lack of railroad facilities, but a road is now
being built,.
I was told that Mr. Edgar, President of Edgar Zinc Co., w
was the best informed and mast progressive man in the Western Zinc
business, so I. went to St.Ifouls to see him. He told me he had been
in the business for over twenty, years and had had ores from all
<est"
over the country assayed and hig£>- d^dmium he ever saw was about
4/iq^. I learn that, the Smelters buy .several kinds of ore and mix
them together same as iron ore men, to get best results. Mr. Edgar
was very much interested and thought we would not find any ores in
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Joplin field high enough for our purpose. He had same idea of
Arkansas as Mr. Lanyon and said the prospecting there had been go¬
ing on for twenty years and no real mine yet developed; deposits
all small and uncertain; there might be ore high in cadmium, but’ -
had never seen them, only xaxy way was to send man to make thorough
investigation. He said excess of cadmium very objectionable in
spelter and smelters tried to keep it down; he did not know how it
could be separated, but would take the matter up with his people
and advise us as to results. He thought if we could find ore high
in cadmium, he could arrange to smelt it alone if practical scheme
could be worked out to separate the cadmium.
He took me to Regis Chawvenet, v/ho had assayed zinc ores -
for years; he said he had assayed thousands of samples, but never
saw cadmium over 4/lC) hi3 experience was that Joplin ores carried
most cadmium, but did not know anything about ores from Arkansas,
except had heard they were not good because carried too much
cadmium. He thought well worth looking up and while cadmium was
more rare than gold, cited case of the material used in Welsbach
lamp, which was sought for a long time and finally a very large
deposit wa3 found in Colorado, carrying 2 %, but enough to supply
demand for many years.
His Brother is State Geologist of Colorado and he promisedd
to write him about the Colorado ores and report to us; also said
he understood Freiglesville mines in Pennsylvania carried some
greenockite, but did not know how much.
My conclusion is as follows; Everything indicates Joplin
district carries most cadmium, except possibly Arkansas; also that
4/lo^ is most we could hope for in the Joplin ores, but if sample
I have from Arkansas shows up more in cadmium it would be good plan
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to send a prospector there to make careful investigation.
Yours very truly,
1907. Mining - Cobalt Search - General (D-07-26)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to
Edison's search for an inexpensive supply of cobalt ore for possible use in his
alkaline storage battery. Included is correspondence with the North American
Lead Co., the Standard Consolidated Mines Co., and field workers whom
Edison employed in his search.
Approximately 40 percent of the documents have been selected. Among
the items not selected are letters from companies and individuals seeking to
interest Edison in various propositions for mining or processing cobalt ores,
along with routine progress reports from field workers.
THOMPSON & HAIKDK
DEAUERS IN MINING PROPERTIES, RANCHES AND TIMBER L.ANDS
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.Dear Sir:-
<• I am
ana knowing from our business relationship with^you
ana Nickel deposits. I write you in refereno^t^^pr^perty ^
ioiMey "ard* 190V.
C^G-G.
fit L
... t
an interested parliy in the Kt^dardJJo.ns^i^ted Nine of Oreggnj
■°£ your ^t|res^in_Cobalt
ana partner control a ruling interest.
(This property has recently aevolopedlma t^e^sivr^f^i
whijh ^my|elf
carrying
“* Nickel ana from 7* up of Oobalt. The ore body as at present develop^ is
12 feet in width ana we have ne ither foot or hanging wall. Phis ore body we
have penetrated to a depth of VO feet, all being solid ore. We are also taking
s considerable copper which runs from 5 to vy0
i of about 60 acres which titles are absolutely
i with work just commencing can furnish
from one to four car loads of ore of this character daily. As we are not
operators, but make a business of opening up such properties, as to us look
ana then disposing or same, i. write you to see if you would be
1 Pr°Perty Of this character. If such is the case ana we can
agree upon terms ana figure, this property can pass into your hands. Phis
development has occurea within the last fe
natives or others
SOTf-sr* ” ”,““t ~
out in conjuncting with this <
Phis property consists
perfect. We at the present time i
favorable
interested in e
■i weeks ana nothing is known by the
1 to what we have. As this mineral is an entirely new thing
Yours truly
Thompson & Hardie
Do not impart this information to the Hickel Trust nor to those of the
standard Co. that you may come in contact with.
Yours T. &. H.
few
g>tantotj Consoltoateti iftltnes Company
Orange , lien Jersey.
Gentlemen: -
On my return from the mine, I find your letter of
January the 14th, by Thos. A. Edison, cancelling your order
for cobalt, given to us undor date of July 2nd, 1906.
On my recont visit in Hovember to Ur. Edison, I had
an agreement with him, whereby ho was to givo us thirty days’
notice before ordering us to stop shipping cobalt. At that
time I statod to him that we wore having trouble in getting
our machinery for the rehabilitation of our mill, and it might
be some time before we would get startod* V/ill state to you
that the mill is now running and that wo have about two-thirds
of a car load of cobalt - part of it being hauled out to the
railroad and part of it being retained in our mill. Of courso,
under the thirty days’ notice, the time ha3 expired in which
we could ask you to take this one car load, but under the
circumstances, we could finish the car load and ship to you
in a very short time, if you would accept same, with prices
named in Hr. Edison's contract.
I have understood from the papers that Hr. Edison
was retiring from the active management of your Company, and
possibly for this reason the cancellation for the cobalt wa3
made. If this is the case, would you oaro to enter into a
new contract on the same terms as the old one, or better
terms if possible , including payment for the small percentage
of copper there might be in the concentration, amounting to
not exceeding 5 $$, or tailing it under the same torms as the
old contract, if you could not accept the copper?
Kindly advise us of your wishes in this matter, and
also state if you will accept thi3 one car of cobalt that wo
now have on hand, or will have in a very short time, and greatly
oblige.
Yours very truly,
jSTAHDARD COIISOLIDASED IJIITES
(jr r II mi'f ‘ - •***
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TPjoffident.
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I hnvc- seen numerous reference!? tVa storage battery in-
<z7sL.'y*-nJ ctr ■--Mel “
lyjmede use of the fnetal -
Mr. Thomas E. Edison
Orange, E. .7.
Dear Sir:
vented by you in which j
stal cobalt but have
^jmede nse o
so far been able to find no definite description. I make bold
therefore to ask if you can refer ir.e to such a description, or if
not, if you will give me some data regarding it end whether you
are manufacturing this battery. My interest in the matter lies in
the use of the metal cobalt, as I am engaged f0r the Survey upon
work connected with cobalt and other rare metals.
Thanking you for your, favor, I am,
Very respectfully.
Franked envelope enclosed needs no further postage.
LoUxt f ;
ojlddica^gfCcuiiviiiamcatioiio.lo'.lfiiiC^nluiinK
The writer trusts to be remembered since a few years
ago when he had the pleasure of meeting you several times
in the oapacity of Sup* t of the Orford Copper Co., dff New
Tork and later as consulting Engineer for the Inter-National
Hiokel Co.
I severed my connection with the Inter-National Nickel
Co. in the spring of 1905, and have during the last year
been building a smelter and refinery for the North American
Lead Co. at Frederioktown, Mo.
This refinery is now finished and we have started %> ship
oobalt oxide on a large scale. The nature and magnitude of
our deposit here as well as the entirely novel prooess whioh
we are employing makes it possible for us to produce a oobalt
of a purity heretofore unknown, and at the same time at an
extremely low cost. Ne can produce heresuoh quantities of
cobalt as will amount to several times the. world* s present
consumption, and we would like to know if you see any possibility
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to use large quantities of cobalt either as metal or oxide
and what you would consider a cheap enough prioe to enable
you to use it in your batteries to make the same a commercial
success.
If you oould use large quantities of cobalt we feel
sure that we could make the price, right.
Our process is ouch that the cobalt will contain only
a trace of iron and copper and we have made cobalt oxide with
nickel contents as low as l/4 of a peroent. No other base
metals whatsoever are present.
Our present plant has a daily capacity of 1000/ of oobalt
oxide but this capacity can be doubled on very short notioe
without muoh expense.
Our mines are well opened up and we have ore in sight
for many years to oome.
Yours very truly.
North Amerioan Lead Co.
-TiOti
In a recent number of the MIHIHG WORLD we read that you.
have discovered a method of using oobalt in place of lead in storage
batteries. it is of great importance to us to know what progress
has been made along this line, and any information you oan give us
would be greatly appreciated. We ask this only to be able to as¬
certain with a fair degrees of certainty to what extent the metal
will .be used in the future.
lours very truly,
O
/ METALLURGICAL COMPASS' OP AMERICA
hmb/elh
1907. Motion Pictures (D-07-28)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the
production and commercial development of motion picture films, cameras, and
projectors. Included are items pertaining to film prices, film distribution,
advertising, sales, and the activities of competitors. Among the documents for
1907 are letters relating to the marketing of motion pictures in Germany, to
aborted negotiations with Pathe Freres regarding the use of Pathe negatives
in the United States, and to the progress of pending lawsuits. Also included is
a tally of sales for individual films released during the period April 1 904-January
1907 indicating title, catalog number, date, length in feet, and total sales by
year; and a telegram announcing the death of Stephen F. Moriarty, former vice
president of the Edison United Phonograph Co. Among the correspondents are
William E. Gilmore, vice president and general manager of the Edison
Manufacturing Co.; Alex T. Moore, manager of the Kinetograph Department;
Leonard C. McChesney, manager of the Advertising Department; Frank L.
Dyer, Herbert H. Dyke, and William Pelzerofthe Legal Department; John R.
Schermerhorn, chairman of directors of the Edison Manufacturing Co., Ltd.; G.
Croyden Marks of the National Phonograph Co., Ltd.; and Thomas Graf,
managing director of Edison Gesellschaft.
Approximately 80 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected include contracts for construction work at the Bronx studio
and documents that duplicate information in selected material.
EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY,
ROCHEStER, N . V.
Your special allowance on Cine film dating from June 1st, 1906
to January 1st, 1907, is $2, 683.02. This does not include shipment of
December 31st, which we sent through on January account at the new price.
Please write us if you wish check made out in the name of the Company ot
Mr. Thomas A. Edison.
Yours truly,
EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
[ENCLOSURE]
cm vim purchased fro;: juke i, isos, _ to decej-bkk 31, 190 c .
PO
5ITIVE
N
13GAT
IVE
TOTAL
CNKDITS
NET A1IO
IJNT
June
If 3:8
585 f
t. 4
000
ft
/
166
58 5
ft.
$ 6, 663
40
July
145
765 f
t. / 4
000
ft
/
149
7 65
ft . /
5,990
60 /
Auc*
151
075 ft. / 6
000
ft
/
157
075
ft. /
6, 283
00 /
SeiJ.
139
580 f
t. / 2
000
ft
/
141
580
ft. /
5, 663
20 /
Oct .
162
515 f
t. /
162
515
ft. $776.48
6, 500
60
Nov .
155
190 f
t.
983
ft.
156
17 3
ft.
6, 246.
,92
Dec.
235,
060 f
b. 2
000
ft.
237,
060
ft.
9,482.
,40
1,151,
770 f
18
983
ft.
1,
170,
7 53
ft.
$46,830.
,12
Special
alio
waned of 5fi - - -
-- 2,341.
51
Special
al Iowan
ice on
amount
over
• 1,
000
000
feet
of b°l .
341.
51
Total allowance -
--$2, 683.
02
[FROM WILLIAM E. GILMORE]
EDI80N MANUFACTURING COMPANY.
- Jan. 0, 1907,
Mr. J. R. Schermerhorn, Chairman of Directors,
Bdioo n Manufacturing Co.,
London, England.
Doar air:
I asi in receipt of your letter of Dec. 19tli, in
reference to Mr. Graf ' s requisition No. 1422, 'calling for
119,765 foet of film, and I am glad to eay that Mr. Moore is
giving thle order special attention and. making as large ship-
mente against it as possible. Under date of Deo. 28th, we
shipped him 30,055 feet, and on Jan. 24th, 33,706 feet against
this order.
In fact the Pilm Plant will work on this particular order
three days a vreek until it' is completed, devoting the balance
of the vreok to domestio and other orders, so that vrq will con¬
tinue to make largo^h^nent s against this order Until it is oom-
Mr. Graf has been written fully regarding the above.
ploted.
MANUFACTURI
COMPANY.
Jan. 8, 1907.
Mr. Thoma Graf, Managing Director,
Ediaon-Gesellsohaft , m.b.H., -
. Berlin, N. j Germany.
Dear Sir :
Referring to my letter to you of Dec. 31st, in reference
to stock order for films mentioned therein', would say that we
are sending you the film "Y/hite Caps", in place of "Uncle Josh
at the Moving Picture Show", Instead of "The Whale Dam Family
and Dam Dog", as on further consideration we thought this would
he hotter for your purposes in Germany. The "White Caps" is a
Tory good subject and good photographically, while tHhe Whalen
Dam Family and Dam Dog" would notobe so interesting on the other
side.
X would also add that under date of Jan. 4th, we made a
further shipment on your large order of 33,705 feet, which we trust
will roach you promptly.
Yours very truly,
iww/r.
Vice-Pres. & Gen. Mgr.
in.
EDISON MANUFACTURING CO.
"cTr AN Q e" "‘r " V
EDISON PRIMARY BATTERIES AND FAN MOTOR OUTFITS
EDISON PROJECTING KINETOSCOPES AND FILMS
Jan. 18, 1907
Mr. A.
T. Moore* Manager,
Kinetograph Department,
1 Edison Manufacturing Co.,
Orange, N. J,
Dear Sir:- ;
Replying to your letter of 14th Inst, in which you enclose.,
copy of letter 'from Enterprise Optical Company ’will eay that they
have been quoted from the Eastman Company 3^ per foot for raw
stock unperforated and 3 1/4/ perforated and I 'am under the im¬
pression that this quotation was sent to them voluntarily as they
arenot using any raw stock so &r as I can find oui but there have
been several other firms here who received the 'same , quotation .
in an open letter: which seems to have been sent, to the trade
generally. The Enterprise people seem to think that we should \
make some reduction in our price ofi films to the trade, but are not;
making this claim so much on account of volume of their business
■ as on the fact of the other manufacturers reducing their prices' ■
and Mr. Roebuck stated to me that he had a reduction in price made v
him from other manufacturers since the first of . the year at- which
time this cut in . the price of raw stock went to effect. He would
not give either name or figures, .but stated that it was' a substantial
Edison Manufacturing Company
To A. T. Moore, Date l/l8/07
' reduction#
In regard to thoir handling our machines will say, that
they have a sample Exhibition Model in their retail salesroom and
occasionally sell one of these, but they are pushing their own
make the"No. 4 Model Optigraph". They conduct a film renting Agency
and retail sales Department under the name of Amusement Supply
Company, 85 Deabboxm Street and most of the films they buy from us
±s sold through this concern as they claim not to do any retail busi¬
ness or market any products other than their own manufacture at their
main place of business under the name of Enterprise Optical Company.
I am told by what I consider good authority that Selig
has had the same quotations since the first of the year on raw stock
but that he paid last year 5/ per foot with a conditional rebate
of $5000.00 if he used one million feet -and am informed that he did
use this amount and got the rebate of $5000.00.
I expect to be in New York next Thursday morning aB I will
leave here Wednesday ancl^then take up these and other mat tors' with
you in detail.
We are entirely out of machines of both jio&elB and
also 10" reels and will ask that you hurry these forward as quickly
as possible.
JH/JD
f/i . P. - I7l<uu.^ .
i
Eibene Hauser:
EDISON- EE5ELL5EHAFT m. b. h.
EDISON • PHONOGRAPHEN U.B0LDGU5SWALZEN.
ShOssei. SUDUFER 24/25.
February, 14th, 07.
W. E. Gilmore, President,
Edison Manufacturing Co. ,
SLs.ajuljl-
N:
Dear Sir,
I take pleasure in sending you herein copy of a letter!
which I wrote to "day to Mr. Moore and which is self explaining.
Very truly Yours
1 copy,
G.MB.15.
[ATTACHMENT]
Copy.
Coinpdgnie Frangaise du Phonographe Edison
Mr. Alex. T. Moore,
Edison Manufacturing Co.
PRANCE,
Dear Sir:-
I beg to acknowledge receipt of your favor of January
23rd advising- me of the fact that certain films which we ordered
were "dupes" and not originals.
It is quite satisfactory to us if you will supply these films.
In future however I do not intend to sell anymore films which are
"dupes" as Edison made subjects since this would only be to discredit
our business over here.
Our competitors are selling their films at M. 1.00 pro meter
against our price of M. 1.70 pro meter and it would certainly not
inspire confidence with our clients if we would sell or offer to sell
Edison films which are duplicates from other pwople’s films
elsewhere obtainable at M. 1.00 pro meter.
I am therefore very anxious to receive the catalogue which you
mentioned in your letter and where you have marked all titles
which are dupes.
I shall have all these subjects dut out from our next edition
"Film Katalog".
Yours very truly
(signed) Thomas Graf
[ATTACHMENT]
Kineto. Dept. April 18,190'!'.
Mr. Gilmore:
In regard to the attached papers, heg to state
that this matter has been entirely taken care of and Mr. Graf is
fully posted in regard to all our original films and also "Dupes"
so there will he no danger whatever of any "Dupes" being sold V the
Berlin Office.
KLEINE OPTICAL COMPANY
PROJECTION - APPARATUS
j - sx/jT i; -HTH n irr „
":/x
March 14,
-r
7*7
; f
Mr. V-r. E. Gilmore,
Orange, N. X.
Ky dear Gilmore:-
f
X enclose with this copy of a circular letter issued
by the Biograph Company which you may have seen before.
While thiB is ambiguous 1 read between t-he lines that
you have won your suit and extend congratulations. Whenever
you have decided upon a policy as to the other manufacturers I
would be pleased to receive information whether you intend to
license the others and we are free to buy from them or ’whether
purc5iases are to be made from you or through you.
Nobody realizes hotter than X the revolutionary effect
of this decision if my guess as to its purport isi. correct.
I am considering going into film making; consider me
an applicant for a license if you decide to issue them.
I expect to be in New York shortly and will take up a
few minutes of your time.
Again congratulating you on the winning of a hard
fought fight, I remain
Yours veryyt^ily,
GK/DH.
[ENCLOSURE]
hue a/,arf that for 3everal years there
xuiB oeen litigation m the courts directed arrainst Hi-u
used ''bv ua th« ^d^aon/^R- , involving the fo£» of camera
in Vviin -m*. Am* ^ut0, ^ Bid. Co. has always been successful
hv the United*^0? ^V" final decision rendered yesterday
hy the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in New York ^
Co^ s^c •iiriera 1 aUnt^■d^:ldta, "That th* Amer->«an Mutoocope & Bio.
in the ’natenta ^ typ? of aPParatu° described and shown
in the patents which //ere involved in the litigation and
arl infringement." The Court also hold that other
forms of camera using a sprocket device for enc/aminr- a
inrtheasuitflln,S ^ infrlnSemarlta °n the patents involved
our thlB 1 nf orra&t i on that .you will understand
ir 3 = a^°.t3UBspatsa!i
s°^s! 0jrldentaiiy iavoived in 3^
Yours truly,
(Signed )i AMKRICW I/iUTO. 6 c BIO. CO.
ADDRESS RECONSTRUCTION. LONDON. "0 ' '/£,
I” LONDON 836. HOLBOBN. ' /£?/ <?_/?
"°‘ | OIRMINOHAM. 666. t C>'n.C&n.C&i't/'^/eWU^.
^ MANCHESTER. 4278. /O' / </
-T5S/ANO at,**- =^00/f//(?7U,f March- lath,
W. E. Gilmore Esq.,
Edison laboratory,
Orange, II. J., U.S.A.
Dear Mr. Gilmore,
eived your cable, reading as follows
To Giftedness. in. (15 Mar: 1907.)
"Edison patent moving picture cameras sustained bn appeal decision
covers all cameras employing perforated teeth driven film see pathe
Paris do not want Drive them from American field willing make arrange a
ments handle their product here exclusively giving full representation
same as our own product without any selling expense to them can you
arrange see them and thus start negotiations direct.
Gilmore".
I at once got into communication with Pathe* s people here
and in Paris to ascertain when I could see either of the Pathe brothers
on a matter of extreme urgency. I am now awaiting an appointment
and upon receiving such, shall go, personally, to Paris to see what
. NS iv lCC* ShTtvv-yv^-^— -tytrW
can be done. l^raniwt-mefi±-yflu but wiki,, at the same time, try and
tie them to some provisional arrangement subject to your approval.
Yours faithfully.
MANUFACTURING COMPANY.
• N March. 115, 1907.
George Kleine, Esq. ,
Kleine Optical Co.,
52 Stats St., Chicago, Ill.
My' dear Kleine;; .
I find oil my return your letter of March 14th,
enclosing • circular issued by the Biograph Co. Of course it is
unnecessary' for me to comment on this. No policy has been
adopted as yet as to what we purpose doing no far as outside manu¬
facturers of films and projecting machines is concerned, but we -
hope bo decide the question in the Tory near future. I will say
to you frankly , however, that it is not our intention to "hog",
the business- in any v/ay, but we think we should receive some con¬
sideration.
I am very sorry indeed that I was not able to see you when
you were here, but I could havo given you no information, for,
as stated above,' no decision had been reached.
Tours very truly,
WBG/rWW
VicerPres. & Gen. Mgr,
/Vi, A -
March 36, 1907,
Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
Eort Myers, Florida.
Dear Mr. Edison: .
I reoeived your note regarding the Kinetoacope
decision, and note what you have to say as to the licensing of
other manufacturers, talcing over plants, etc. What you purpose
doing 1 do not consider at all feasible. I have considered it
from every standpoint ■, have discussed it with our different people,
and 1 think that by tho time you got back we will have something
that will be entirely satisfactory to you. The suggestions a3 a
whole are quite good, with some slight modifications. I will say'
to you now that the Eastman Kodak people are very anxious indeed to
oo -operate with us, aB indicated by. Mr. Eastman himself.
In the meantime, we find that tho Vitagraph Co. have taken
an absolutely detrimental stand to themselves hy Bbfc*ing that they
will not submit to any arrangement whatever. I am therefore
instructing the lawyers to. proceed against them at once , and in
the meantime to get to work on the other suits that were held in
abeyance, and I do not think it will be long before all of them
will get into line. Of course I am not positive as to this at
this writing, but plans have already been formulated looking to
briig the matter to a head, and I am certain that by the time I
get back from Hot Springs, about the 10th of April, there will
EDISON MANUFACTURING COMPANY. . .
Mr. Thorns A. Edition.' (2) 3/26/07
be considerable accomplished, and by tho time you return
great deal more.
Youtb very ;truly ,
March 28, 1907.
W. E. Gilmore,
.The Homestead, Hot Springs, ya.
Following cable received from Marks , London: Pathe willing
enter mutual agreement, but are advised decision covers cameras, '
not films. Mail. me verbatim report, also copy patents. They
showed plans for American factory their films. Believe I can persuade,
agreement exploitation mutually. Write me' your alternative ideas
for basis. Have riot mentioned negotiations to any one.' '
RECONSTRUCTION.
Dyer sending Marks data requested.
I. W. Walker.
W READ THE NOTICE AND AGREEMENT ON BACK. J
^ , EDISON MANUFACTURING CO.
maz;”ry
EDISON PRIMARY BATTERIES AND FAN MOTOR OUTFITS
EDISON PROJECTING KINETOSCDPES AND FILMS.
Mr. Wra. E. Gilmore, Vice-President,
Edison Manufacturing Co.»
"The Homestead",
Hot Springs, Va.
My dear Gilmore :~
I am jUBt in receipt of your telegram, and
as per your request, I am enclosing copy of your original cable to
Mr. Mar*4/ X am also enclosing copy of our advertisement for the
"Billboard" and "Clipper" for week of April 6th. The advertisement
pertaining to Injunction is an exact copy of the Injunction itself.
Mr. Pelzer and myself went over this advertisement1, carefully, and
this is what we agreed upon. I think it carries out the ideas ex¬
pressed by you over the 'phone previous to your leaving.
In regard to the price of Pathe Films, or rather the cost
of the films laid down in New York City, the best information I can
give you is that Which was contained in my report on the situation,
on or about the time that the Pathe Company opened an of-rice in Hew
York City. I quote from this report as follows: —
"Reapprais ement: Ho. 783 Manufacturers of Collodion— From
Pathe Freres, Paris, Exported February 25.th, 19 04, entered at Hew
York, File No. 31396.
Findings of hunt', G. A.— 2,205 meters de films, entered at .80, ad¬
vanced to 1 franc per meter.
In the United States:
The duty on developed positive film is 25$ ad valorem and 65 cents
per pound for celluloid— A pound of standard film is 200 ft. in
length.
1 Franc per meter 1B equivalent1 to 6 cents per foot in American
money — The 25$ ad valorem duty is .015 cents per foot, and the 65
cents per pound on celluloid is .003- cents per foot. T0 this must
be added freight, custom entry fee and cartage, giving the itemized
cost as follows:—
Entered price . . . . . 06 cents per foot
Ad valorem duty . . 015 " " "
Celluloid duty . . 11 » "
Freight, custom entry fee & cartage . 002 " " "
".W
Total
EDISON MANUFAETURINE CD.
MAIN OFFICE AND FACTORY
ORANGE, N.J.
EDISON PRIMARY BATTERIES AND FAN MOTOR OUTFITS
EDISON PROJECTING KINETDSODPES AND FILMS.
You will understandthat the price of one franc per meter, which the
Pathe Company claimed is the price at which they sell films in
usual wholesale quantities, is not correct. While it is true that
thev may sell films at this figure to the Pathe Company of London,
Berlin,' Madrid, etc., it is nothing more or less than selling film
to themselves. I have reliable information to the effect that the
lowest price at, which film can he bought in Paris, is 2 francs per
meter, less 30^, and that this figure, is only quoted on large quan¬
tities. 2 francs per meter, less 30^ would be .084 per foot in
American money. You v/ill recollect that when we ware figuring
over the new price for film for London, Berlin and the Foreign De¬
partment, that we agreed upon an 8-1/2 cent price per foot, which
"rives us our regular margin of profit.
I am also enclosing you copy of Marks',-' telegram, as you
may possibly wish to see it. ,,
I have your telegram instructing me to talk over the matter
with Mr. Pelzer in regard to a basis of Agreement with the Pathe
Company. We have agreed on a plan by which the Pathe Company
would send us a negative of each of their subjects, we to print all
positive prints and do all advertising, and bear all selling ex¬
penses. On the other hand, we would send them a negative of each
new subject, and they would do likewise. Such an arrangement would
eliminate all duties, except on the negative films. We do not
think it would be a good plan to have them ship positive prints to
us for various reasons, which you will think of without my recall-
ing. , '■‘l.
Up to this moment of writing, we have received no word
from Mr. Edison in regard to instructions. If anything comes in
the morning, I will let you know promptly. If there is anything
further you think of, that requires immediate attention, kindly wire
to Mew York Office.
Mr. Dyer has sentMark.s copies of both patents, and Mr.
Pelzer is sending ^r.Mhrks copy of the Decision, both of which will
go by to-morrow's Steamer.
Hoping you are enjoying all the benefits of the "Hot
Springs" , I am,
EDISON MANUFACTURING CO.
MAIN OFFICE AND FACTORY
ORANGE, N. J.
EDISON PRIMARY BATTERIES AND FAN MDTDR OUTFITS
EDISON PROJECTING KINETDSCOPES AND FILMS.
W. E. Gilmore , Esq. ,
"Tlie Homestead" ,
Dear Mr. Gilmore:
Hot Springs, Va.
Immediately upon receipt of your telegram I
repeated the cable from G. Croydon Marks to Mr. Edison, as follows:
"Following cable received from Marks , London: "Pathe willing
enter mutual agreement, but are advised decision covers cameras,
not films. They showed plans for American factory their films.
Believe I can persuade agreement exploitation mutually. Write me
your alternative ideas for basis. Signed Marks. .What are your
instructions? W. E. Gilmore." J
Immediately his reply is received I will have it repeated to
you. I also telephoned the cable and your instructions to Mr.
Moore in Hew York, who will confer with Mr. Pelzer and wire you
direct. The report and copies of patents requested by Mr.
Marks have already gone forward or will go forward to him to-day.
ThiB is the only thing that has come up 'out of the ordinary,
so that there is nothing more of importance to write.
With kind regards to you all and trusting that your visit
will not be broken into too much by business affairs, I am,
Yours very truly,
P. S. I enclose copy of letter which just came in from G.
Croydon Marks.
(COPY)
G-ilmore: Port Myers, Fla.
In re telegram Marks- Pathe . In any event his subjects
should be printed here to save duty. I think we should make con¬
tract if possible with P. for eifblusive his subjects this country
Canada— paying royalty on each. You can easily find what he makes
now after paying duties, commissions, etc., and if we offer, say
60^ of this profit as royalty he would make more than he makes
now. You might have Marks intimate to him that we are fighting
to sustain film patent, so that is a contingency which he will
have to take into consideration.
EDIS01T.
EDISON MANUFACTURING COMPANY. ///'^;
' V ‘
April 10, 1907.
G. Croydon Marks, Esq. , ’
London , England .
Dear Sir:
I have been South for about ten days and only returned
yesterday, when I immediately took up the most careful consider¬
ation of your cable dated March 28th, in re Pathe matter, and re¬
plied to you as follows :
"Consider our facilities United States superior anybody for
sale Pathe films.- Willing pay them fixed prloe per foot for . , ’
original negatives, also fixed price per foot on positives sold,
we manufacturing all positives here, maintaining our list fifteen
cents, their list twelve cents. Other connections prevent
mutual agreement furnishing negatives from here . Many our sub¬
jects not commercial abroad. Edison will vigorously continue
litigation to sustain film patent, which promises success . Pathe
best position to make us proposition on above lines. Cable
fully."
As I have already written you, our facilities for ttia, manu¬
facture and sale of films in this country are. superior to those
of any of our competitors, and in view of the decision in the .
camera case, with the details of which you are now doubtless
familiar, as . I understand Mr. Dyer has sent you full copies of the. i
decisions as well as the patents themselves, we feel that we are
in a position to foroe our competitors to come to an understand¬
ing with us so far as the manufacture and sale of film3 is con¬
cerned, in the United States; but, as I have already stated, it is
not our intention to crowd them out of doing business in this
country; on the contrary, we want them to continue to do business,
but we feel that we should have some recognition, as naturally
ibis litigation has dost us a great deal of money (upwards of
$40,000) , but on the other hand we do not feel that we want to
take the stand that no others can do business under ,einy circum-
■ stances. It is a difficult matter, for us to . say what. price we
are willing to pay Pathe in the; way of commission' on 'the. sale of
their prqduct, as, of course, , they doubtless have a working
arrangement with their representative hera, which could, no doubt,
be made much more, advantageous to them if we were to have the'
exclusive manufacture and sale of their films in this country; and
G. Oroydon Marks. edison manufa^^i?rii
4/l0/07.
wo are also willing to pay thorn a fixed prioe per foot for nega¬
tive films, which would naturally havo a tendency to reduce the
cost price to them for negatives. The: reason that we ask for
a negative to he sent uB, from which wo will manufacture positives,
is that in that oase only one duty will be paid to the United
States Government on. the negative, and thereafter positives can
be made without any additional cost to them for duty, freight,-
custom house fees, exprebsage, etc. , which naturally must be a
considerable item under present conditions, the ad valorem duty on
films being 25%-, plus 65 cents per pound -for celluloid, and the
. freight, expressage or 0 art age and expense of customhouse entries,
. etc., is in addition to this. It would therefore appear to us
that they are in a bettor position to submit a proposition from ,
their own' standpoint.
As I stated in' my cable, our list prioo here on films is
15 cents per foot, whereas their price is 12 conts list per foot,
and I understand that thoy give different discounts up to as high
as 30/ , but the general impressions seems to be that they have
never extended, this larger discount to anybody. Their prevailing
net prioe to dealers is 9 cents per foot, so far as we have been
able to learn, and the lowest price that we soli to dealors is
12 cents per foot, irrespective of the amount of film ordered.
So far as making -a mutual arrangement for the furnishing of
our subjects to them, certain other arrangements that we have in
countries other than Prance or England prevent our furnishing^ the
negatives from here with which to make positives for thoir sale .
throughout Europe and elsewhere. Then again, there is a question
in myunind as to whether all of the negatives that we make here
will be suitable for European markets, inasmuch as in a great
many oases the subjects are purely local and would not bo under-
stood by the populaoe abroad. On the other hand, X realise that
a great many of the subjects can be used, but, as above stated,
we cannot make a reciprocal agreement with them, on the above- lines
As matters now stand, however, they are no. doubt selling their
filma at a very low fixed price to their representative here, and
whatever profit he makes over and above that price represent the ,
profits that he will make out of the, buoiness; On the other hand
it may be that they are carrying the business themselves in this
. country and assuming all expenses in connection therewith, and .if
auoh expenses are not watched closely naturally the ^profits will
bo small, if anything - -Of /course I am not at all familiar with
the arrangements whioh they: have with their representative here
and am only citing thiB from our standpoint. - If , on the other .
. hand, they make a satisfactory arrangement with up, it .ip our-
intention to puBh the sale of any subjects they may send us/with ...
just as much energy .aB via do ouy. own sub j pots, by. properly adver¬
tising same , the issuance of plenty of printed matter, eto.,
giving their subjeots equally as great prominence as we do our. own
,, in all respeotB . If an agreement is reached whereby we pay them.
00 much per fobt on positives, sold, we are perfectly willing to ... ■
make any arrangement that will be eatlsfaotory ae to payments, and
we. /’are aleo agreeable to furnishing a sworn statement showing the
sales per month of each and e~Vory subject, and, furthermore,, to.
permit an examination of our books by a disintereptod aepountant.,
• who -will. verify suoh statements, so that- they -oan. reel that they. .
^ ard: receiving every cent to whioh they would be entitled.-.: ^e,
.consider that an eirrangement of this kind would be mutually
G. Croydon Marks. Epjs0N mXnufMrinq company. 4/10/07.
satisfactory, and in view of the fact that, by such an arrangement
they would be under no expenses whatsoever ,'it would seem to us
that it should appeal to them. fjfo doubt they will want to
oonsider the proposition after you have submitted it to them, and
we are perfectly willing that they should do so and they can
then cable us direct as to their proposition and thereafter take
the matter up without bothering you further. On the other hand,
they may d ocide to have their representative over here take the
matter up with me personally, which 1b entirely agreeable, of
course. This, however, is a. matter, that we leave entirely in
their handB. I would add , that wo have approaohod nobody repre¬
senting thom: either directly, or. indirectly, nor do we purpose
doing so, aB we prefer, of oourse, to deal direct with principals.
' 1 notice that you speak of their having plans out for an
American studio. I desire to say to you that wo have about
completed a magnificent new studio in the uppor part of Hew York
City, whioh will enable uo to turn out as many subjoots .as we
desire, and v# 1th the additional facilities that wo will thus have,
both there and at ' our plant hero, which has been materially in¬
creased, recently , v/e will be able to produce larger quantities
to bettor advantage, and very much more rapidly than has been tho
case in the past.
v •. ?° far as the question of the film itself is conoerned/ao
X Intimate in my cable, Mr. 3di son intends to vigorously contin-
ue the litigation to sustain his film patents,, and from the infor¬
mation that we have from, the Legal Departments we are sure that
we have a very good ohdnce to win out on this. It has taken us
a long time to secure the decision in the case of the Camera
but tho deoision iq final and not subject tp appeal, and if wo
should secure a similar deoision on the film, then, of course we '
will be in tho position that we. control everything so far as the
United ptatoo is concerned. We are looking at this matter, how¬
ever, from a purely commoroial standpoint, and would therefore
prefer to make an equitable arrangement with Paths whioh would be
satisfactory to all concerned.
Regarding the attached letter from Mr. Marks
which I have read with interest, X have no suggestion to
make except to call attention to the error which appears
on the first page. Rathe 's counsel in London have appar¬
ently advised their clients that Bince the claims on the
films wore eliminated from the reissue patent on the camera
that amounts practically to an abandonment of the film.
The facts are that when the application for the reissue was
filed, the Patent Office required > us to put the claims on
the film in a separate application, and therefore, there
were two reissue patents granted on September 30th, 1902,
the first numbered 12037 covering the camera, (this being
the patent that was recently sustained against tjie Biograph
Company) and the second numbered 12038, covering the film.
This latter patent was reissued a second time on January
12th, 1904, and numbered 12192. You will, therefore, see'
that Messrs, Pathe. are under a wrong impression in believ-
No. 2 - W.E.G.
ing that we have no patent on the film. As a matter of
fact, the claims of the film patent cover all moving pic-
ture films and would he undoubtedly infringed should Pathe
attempt to manufacture films in this country.
Yours very truly,
O „
PLU/AKK,
[ENCLOSURE]
Glim smiling Qju^inm- (Expert.
The second Interview with Messrs. Pathe has resulted in a
Clearing & f the p6tiition so far aB they view it from their point of
viewy and, at the Bane tine, it has shown ne what da passing in
their minds.
At yesterday's interview, the Chairman end two of the
Directors were present, and they .were extremely friendly. They
assured me that Counsel's opinion had been given from America -not
by one counsel whom they usually employed, hut hy the best consultant
in addition to their pwn, which Was to the effect that the Film hav¬
ing been in the original patent and absolutely struct out of the
re-issued patent, would prevent anyone claiming the Pilm as an
article or product. further, they assured me that the opinion
. stated^the Judges had virtually (decided only nppn the machine and
they/ were not inlany way interested in the cinematograph itself^ as
they do not sell machines but simply films. However, whatever the
legal position was, or is, they are so busy at their works that they
would be glad (if they could sOe themselves making the same money and
with the same prospects of business) t6 he relieved of the control of
[ENCLOSURE]
V. E. Gilmore Esq. ._2._. _
' the American territory. They have a man at the preeent time in
1-Tew York, from Paris, arranging about the starting bt a manufactory
there for the reproduction of the films from the negatives they will
send over. Plans are prepared for this building and they have the
estimates which they are considering, and would by this have actually
settled, but for my intervention as the result of your cable. The
amount they will spend oh' the buildings they estimate to be £6,000,
but, as they explained, they are making fifty- five miles of film a
day in Prance, and they would rather develop their French, tb$n take
in hand the American if we will WCrk With them.
I tried very hard .with them to gdt them to give me the
amount of business they are-nO w doing there, and they were at one
time somewhat disinclined to ta Ik about exclusive agency. unlesB we
could give with it exclusive agency to them for our films. X had
to very carefully get away from this and to lead them to the money
proposition which concerned their making money in America oh the
most advantageous terras, irrespective of What the European might be.
The^j ultimately, decided that X was to write you fully, and they
would await our proposals, but that they could not give us a definite
price for the positives noV the definite amount that the^would ex¬
pect as a guaranteectminimum. !?hey did Bay, however, that the price
they would charge for negatives would be ten dollars per metre and
they agreed to the principle of a sliding scale, that is, royalty on
positives to be so much per foot Y>fovided the sales were of a certain
amount, and a lesser amount per foot if the sales were of other
amounts, but there must be a good minimum, and we must undertake to
[ENCLOSURE]
W. E. Gilmore Esq.
3-
■buy one of all the films they now produce leaving it to us to decide
whether we would make any positives or reproductions from them or
not, seeing that some might he extremely popular in America while
others would only hate a little or no sale - more possibly no sale.
They explained that they send all their negatives now, that is why
they want that condition observed l
They explained that they would leave us to charge what price
we liked to the public, although they knew that ours _sop4 qt a higher
price than their* s. All they are concerned about is, getting the
same amount of profit that they now get and not loosing the expect¬
ancy which they are relying upon for future work. The amount of
coloured positives that are sold is an increasing one, and they
assured me that they would charge us a very low price for the posi¬
tives as they had secret means for producing the coloured, that they
could not set up in any other country, and -that the price that could
be obtained for coloured positives was so much in advance of what
the black and white sold for, that the duty that would be payable
on the films would be -trifling compared to the extra profit we would
get. They asked if we would .supply them with ours. I said I had
no doubt we could make some arrangement,' but certainly not an ex¬
clusive one, owing to conditions that had previously been set up.
Will you carefully consider these points and let me hear
from you with a definite proposal
(1) As to how much per foot you will pay on the positives you
sail, and make from their negatives that you buy from them. '
(2) What minimum amount Of business you will guarantee.
[ENCLOSURE]
W. E. Gilmore Esq.
2L
(3) What scale you propose for varying royalties with varying
sales.
If you cable me upon any matter, of course I will attend
to it.^and if you write me you may perhaps give me some alternatives,
hut the matter is urgent I can see, from what they themselves have
in view to meet the developments in America. Canada* I must explain,,
is already arranged for. This sole license, therefore, to us would
he for America.
I oabled you to-day as follows:-*
"Gilmore, Orange. Pathe* s will sell uis negatives ten dollars
per metre. We reproduce and pay royalty also guarantee minimum.
They do not object our then altering selling price their films. Would
not state royalty or minimum they will accept hut showed plans of
building they are proposing erecting in America which will rejnain
abeyance pending our settlement. Sliding soale .royalty varying with
our sales we can propose. Paths' does great business already but
if we can do it as well for them while making profit oursOlves they
will prefer it. Reciprocal arrangement not obligatory. 1
Reconstruction" . I
Yours faithfully,
EDISON PROJECTING KINETDSCDPES AND FILMB.
Mr. V/. 15. Gilmore, Pres.,
iDear Sir : -
I herewith hand you report on the cost of production
and sales of positive films for the fiscal year ending Feby.
28th, 1908. You will note that the cost of positive per foot
is given both without and with the cost of negatives. On the
basis of the division of profits as suggested by Mr. Edison,
in connection with a prospective deal with Pathe Ereres, you
will note that the report shows a division of net profits
based on a list price of 12$ less 30, 25 and 20$. You will
also note that these figures. are based on our receiving the
negatives from them without cost. I presume that if we
should pay for the negatives that we would not pay more than
the cost of their positive prints laid down in Hew York City,
which is 8$ per foot.
I showed i£r. Edison these figures and he seemed to
think that the division of profits was all right and that
we could not expect to make a greater profit. Of course, the
( cent 1 d .#2 )
EDISON MANUFACTURING CD.
. main office and factory
ORANGE, N.J.
EDISON PRIMARY BATTERIES AND FAN MOTOR OUTFITS
EDISON PROJECTING KINETOSCOPES AND FILMS.
profits will depend largely upon the price which the Pathe
films are sold at and as this has not been determined upon,
the figures are only problematical. Mr. Edison also
called attention to the fact that in doubling our output as
we probably would do if we should print Pathe films, that
the expense cost now figured at 41^ would be materially
reduced, and it is possible that it might be reduced to as
low as 25^. ..
I personally am inclined to think that the figures are
too low and that we should be entitled to a larger margin of
profit.
You will al30 note I am sending you a report covering the
number of prints sold of original subjects produced
during the years 1904, 1905 & 1906, No record was ever
kept prior to 1904. The subjects printed in red ink are
subjects which we call productions, which means, subjects in
which we used scenery, properties and theatrical talent and
all of which go to make the cost of our negatives. The
subjects printed in black ink do not entail any expense other '
than travelling expenses and time of operator.
EDISON MANUFACTURING CO.
MAIN OFFICE AND FACTORY
' ORANGE, N.J.
EDISON PRIMARY BATTERIES AND FAN MOTOR OUTFITS
EDISON PROJECTING KINETQSDDPES AND FILMS.
#3.
Trusting that the figures which I am giving you will be
of assistance to you in the negotiations, I beg to remain.
Yours respectfully,
Kinetograph Department
[ENCLOSURE]
Film Report Feby. 28th 1906 - Faby.28th 1907
Total feet Positive Bought,, . ' . 1,909,908
" " " Produced . 1, 839 , 042 j
Waste 70,866 -.037^ i
' Cost j
1,909908 ft. Blank Film at .03 per ft . $57,297.24
Chemicals 1,120.42
Packing Cases 265.13
Pay Roll, 7,519.84
Total $66,202.63
Cost per ft. without negative (labor & material) .0360
Cost per ft. with negatives ($12,234.76) .0427
Average selling price per foot, .1027
Average cost Negatives per foot, l .81
( S' Ci/lccJ-. Pnvfwi/cLi . ) J
Cost Film per foot without negatives (L & M) .036
Expense (41^) <0147
Total .0507
Pathe Selling Price. 12 less 30 fo (3ooooft./~r7fto.)
Cost
Profit
.084
.0507
.0333
Pathe 66 2/2
Edison33 l/2
,0222 per ft,
.0111 " "
Pathe selling price. 12 less 25 oft-
Cost
Pathe 66 2/3 -
Edison 33 l/3 -
'■> .09
.0507
.0393 ,
[ENCLOSURE]
Paths selling price. 12 / less 20 {•fhao ft. ft**
Coat ,
Profit
Pathe 66 2/3 - .0302 per ft.
Edison 33 l/3 - .0151 " "
Paths Discounts
.S', 000 ft. per month
20,000 " "
30,000 " "
The above figures are based upon Pathe negatives
delivered f.o.b. N. Y. free of cost, assuming the cost of
negatives to be the same as Pathe positives f.o.b. N. Y.
the cost of negatives would be .08 per foot made up bb
follows-
Entered price .06 per ft.
Ad valorem duty 25/ .015 " "
Celluloid duty 65/ per lb. 003 " "
Freight custom A Cartage .002 " "
Total .08
Comparison
Film Shipments I2/1/06 - 4/30/07
Domestic Shipments
Berlin Shipments
Total 1,024740'
Respectfully submitted
Kinetograph Dept.
625850 1
398890
20/
25,<
303.
7) .096
.0507
.0453
[ENCLOSURE]
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565 43 13
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150 70 39
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45
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45
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5915 *
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45
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50
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40
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5918 11
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40
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Coal Carriers, Chefoo
45
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Pillow Fight ?.S. Coptic.
45
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5921
Polish Fire Brigade, Warsaw
80
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17 5
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5923 "
Chutes Imaha, Finland’
45
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5924 4-20-04
Babby & Puppies
65
25 8
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5925 4-20-04
Dog Factory
240
42 5
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5928 4-28-04
Hold Uj. Country Grocery Store
160
12 2
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5929 4-28-04
Cop Fools Sergeant
175
24 6
5930 4-28-04
Jap. Acrobats
120
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5904 5-17-04
Bucki ng Broncho
55
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Rounding up and Branding Cattle,
95
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5942
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79
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80
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5944 "
Cowboys & Indians Fording River.
50
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5945 "
Western Stage Coach Hold-up
1 55
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[ENCLOSURE]
'5957 6- 7-04
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Elephants Shooting Chutes
80”
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15
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5958 6- 6-04
Inter. Collegiate Ath . Championships
600
2
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5959 6- 6-04
Weary Willie Kidnaps a Ch i 1 d
150
9
2
X
598a 5- 8-04
Buster Brown Series
710
50
4
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5988 7- 1-04
Inter. Collegiate Regatta
750
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5998 7-12-04
Pollywogs initiating Raw Recruits
150
17
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6004 7-15-04
S.S. Baltic leaving Pier
150
90
0
3
6005 7-19-04
Parade Mystio Shriners
115
5
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6006 7-19-04
Outing Mystio Shriners
145
5
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6007 7-25-04
Boxing Horses L^na Park
165
17
5
6008 7-28-04
Scenes Infant Orphan Asylum
575
9
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6009 7-29-04
Elephants shooting Chutes #2
75
54
5
6010 7-29-04
Judge Parker & Mayo r McCl el 1 an
6£
20
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6015 7 04
Fire & Fmale s Luna Park,
500
29
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6016 7 04
Judge Parker Recei v l ng ‘No t i f 1 cat i on
165
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6
• 6017
President Roosevelt
50
12
2
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6018 7-20-04
Canoeing Charbs River
150
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6019 8-26-04
How A French Nobleman got a Wife
675
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European Rest .• Cure
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[ENCLOSURE]
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Baby Parade Asbury Park
570
1
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6054 9-15-04,.
Capture of Yegg Bank Burglars
960
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21
25
6056 O-16-O^
Military Hanouvres, Manassas, Va.
2 6b
8
2
5
6057 9-17-04
Locomotive Head-on Colltssion
80
18
51
55
6044 9-L9-04
Weary Willie Kisses the Bride
140
16
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6045 10-12-04
Parsifal.
1975
16
10
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6052 10- 6-04*
Maniac Cha6e.
#0
27
6
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6076 10-21-04
City Hall to Harlem i i> 1# minutes
150
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i
- > EDISON MANUFACTURING CO.
p,‘ main office and factory
Cdvi0n~ ORANGE, N.J.
EDISON PRIMARY BATTERIES AND FAN MDTBR BUTFITS
EDISUN FREJEETINE KINETESEEFES AND FILMS.
oNTHME mimts 31 Union Square, New York.
Mr, W. E, Gilmore, Pres,,
Bear Sir;
There are one or two matters to which I would call
your attention in connection with the Kinetograph Bepartment
and your visit to the other side.
We produced last year two million feet of positive
films, and the plant today is being enlarged to turn out four
million feet per year. This figures on a basis of fifty-five
working hours per week. With a double crew, and working nights,
we could, of course, increase this output to eight million feet
per year.
The Pathe Company for sometime have enjoyed the
reputation of having the best perforators and the best printing
machines, Bor several months past X have made repeated efforts
to purchase one of their printing machines, also one of their
perforating machines on the other side. Mr. Graff went into
the matter very thoroughly, and the result was that I was ob¬
liged to abandon the idea of being able to get any machines on
the other side. Since then we have designed and built a new
perforating machine which seems to give very good results, and
which is certainly superior to anything that we have had here¬
tofore, I have ordered seven of these machines from the
Precision Company, of Roseville, N. and I expect to have
EDISON MANUFACTURING CD.
MAIN OFFICE AND FACTORY
ORANGE, N. J.
EDISON PRIMARY BATTERIES AND FAN MOTOR OUTFITS
EDISON PROJECTING KINETDSODPES AND FILMS.
these machines in use within the next sixty or ninety days.
I am very well satisfied with the machine, and feel confident
that it will bring about a decided improvement in the steadi¬
ness over our pictures.
At the present time, I am "up against it" on the
pfcinting machine. We have two machines at the factory, which
were built by Heisse, and there are no drawings in existence
of either of them, I am obliged to run both of these machines
continuously, and if one of them should brealc down, it would
simply cut ouY output in half. I do not wish to build any
more machines like those which we have, for the simple reason
that they are very complicated and very hard on the film, par¬
ticularly the negatives.
Heisse is putting some new ideas on paper for a
printing machine, and Porter is also working on the same thing,
but it will be some time before we can get a model of either
built.
It has occurred to me that if you consumate a deal
with the Paths Company, or, if negotiations should reach a
point where the closing of a deal is in sight, that you might
be able to purchase one of their printing machines and send it
over to me; or, if not, you might be able to get a set of
25 Clerkenwell Road, London, Eng.
Dear Mr. Gilmore :-
1 am aorry not .to have seen you to say
good-bye , hut I hope that this letter will find you in good
health and spirits, and that you had a pleasant trip. In
accordance with your request 1 am sending the letter from
Messrs. Brandon Bros, in reference to the Rathe suits, to¬
gether with a copy of my letter to them. It seems to me
that if the Erench lawyer, M. des Jardins, looks upon the
suits as practically hopeless at the present time, we might
as well stop any further expense, hut if there is a reason¬
ably good chance of success, having gone so far, I think we
ought to keep on. Mow, that AyUworth is in Europe) why ,
would it, not be a good plan to have him go to Paris and take
up the cases the same as I would do? He has had enough pa¬
tent experience with me to be pretty familiar with such mat¬
ters and I believe he could do all that I could do, and a
good deal more in this particular line. I would rather not
No. 2 - Wiji. E. Gilmore, Esq.
go aa I have made other plana for the aummer, hut I am,
of courao, willing to go if any good can he accompliahed.
Yours very truly,
ron/ARK.
[ENCLOSURE]
Brandon Brothers
59, RUE DE PROVENCE
Patent Lawyers^h/B
Protection of Industrial Property
Par is. i ix i
17 April 1907.
Hear Sir,
MARKS v- PA THE, Trench suit on the patents of Hesbriere
et al. Since your visit over heref this litigation has been
following its normal course and can be looked upon as progressing
favourably.
The first decision of the Court was, as you will remember
to refer the case to three experts, appointed specially for '
investigating the matter, hearing the parties and drawing up a
report which is intended to enlighten the Court, particularly on
the technical aide of tha question.
After the Desbriere patents were assigned from Marks to
the Edison Trench C* another suit was brought against Paths, this
time in the name of the Edison Trench C«, both for the purpose
of establishing that infringement by Pathe was still continuing
and for recording a fact which had not been fully established in
the Marks suit, in connection with the infringement of the patents
on the so-called "centering machine".
The matter iB still before the experts and is being fought
before them vigorously on both sides. So far, the question of
[ENCLOSURE]
Trank 1. Dyer 'Esq.
anticipation has been discussed, hut there seams to he, from
what we hear in the German suit, a possibility of the Path<5
Company raising further anteriorities in this coun.try. It is
desirable that the Btate of the art be gone over fully, inde¬
pendently of the knowledge which Mr. Desbriere has on the subject
and we believe the case would be benefitted if we could have the
advantage of revising and discussing it completely with you, in
view of your general knowledge of the prior art, of the manu¬
facture and its technicalities and of the legal side of the ques¬
tion. It would be preferable, if such a verbal discussion
can be arranged, that it should take place before the experts
send in their ;report to the Court, that 1b to say in time to
enable us to make use, before them, of any additional facts or
arguments which we may decide upon with you. We cannot say
until what extreme date your eventual presence here could be put
off, but we think that we can cause the ease to remain before
the experts at least until say the end of July, However, the
earlier you could come over, the better.
Mr. Marks to. whom we are sending a copy of this letter will
certainly agree with us and his cooperation with you and with
us will also be desirable.
We are ,
Yours truly,
[ENCLOSURE]
Mesurs . Brandon Brou. ,
59 Rue do Provence,
Paris, Prance.
Gentlemen
PATHE: Your favor of the 17th ult .
was duly received in reference to these suits, and I note
that in your opinion it would ho adviBahle for me to see
you with the view of discussing the oases prior to the
report of the experts. I have mentioned the matter to Hr.
Edison and to Hr. Gilmore and they are both somewhat in
doubt as to the wisdom of pressing the suits any further
unless the chanoe of success will reasonably warrant it.
Although I expect to be tied down to my work here pretty
much during the ooming summer, yet if it is important that
I should see you and if Hr. Gilmore concludes to have the
oases pushed forward, I can, no doubt, arrange to go over.
At any rate Mr. Gilmore will take up these matters with you
and I am, therefore, sending your letter to him at London.
He sails today from New York and will, no doubt, call on
you sometime in the near future. /
Yours very truly,
ffdVfa*
NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH CO.
26. CLERKENWELL ROAD,
2^o'/vc/onj
c<g. _ . JSSSLl .
Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Edison laboratory,
West Orange, New Jersey.
My dear Mr. Edison,
I have just cabled Pelzer as follows
Vvw^
"ZYMOTIC NEW YORK PELZER Paths proposition refused
"No working arrangement practicable Advise Edison GILMORE".
I had a long talk with Mr. Marks last week and found out
from him exaotly what -^sa^tak ino place in the various interviews
with the Paths people. Prom wh^t he has learned from other sources
and from what I have been able to learn here I am satisfied that
it would be detrimental to us to make any sort of an arrangement
with them. The piotureB whioh they are making are in some cases,
of oourse, exceedingly good, but on the other hand they are making
pictures that would not be countenance^ by anybody but Parisians,
or in countries that permit the issuance of literature, pictures
and so forth, that are beyond description. In view of this fact
I made up my mind that it would not be good policy for us to be
identified with them in any way whatsoever, and I had Mr. Marks
write them that the only conditions under whioh we would come to
any arrangement in Amerioa would be that we would have the right
to select the subjects, that there would be no charge for negatives
and that if this was satisfactory to them we would then continue
the discussion and endeavour to reaoh an arrangement satisfactory
to them on the basis of paying them a royalty of so muoh per foot
NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH CO.
26. CLERKENWELL ROAO.
on positive films actually sold. This did not appeal to them and
it gave me the opportunity to close our negotiations. 1 am perfect¬
ly satisfied with the result and hope it will meet with your ap¬
proval. I will tell you. more about it when I get hack.
Business here is quite slow indeed; in fact we must expect it
at this time of the year. I don't see why we should not increase our
business ho waver in the near future, and I have already started to
put into effeot certain changes that we went over when I saw you last
I am also looking up the question of moving our faotory inter¬
ests to England, and have had some very good offers made to us
which after duly considering with Messrs. Schermerhom, Graf and
Rlehl, will be decided.
Aylesworth is now in Brussels going into their troubles. Al¬
though he has been gone a week I have not yet heard from him, but
I have written him to-day asking what, if any, results have been ac¬
complished.
I shall doubtless be here another week and X shall go on the
Continent to look over all of our plants, selling offices, and bo
forth, and I shall doubtless write you from time to time as to how
I find things, what changes are proposed in the way of betterments
and so forth and so forth.
Trusting this finds you enjoying your usual good health and
with kind regards
[ATTACHMENT]
(P<^
May 28th, 1907.
G. Croydon Marks, J5sq. ,
10, Southampton Buildings,
London, W.C.
Boar Mr. Marks,
Will you not kindly send me a oopy of the letter that you
wrote Bathe on the 18th instant. I, of course, want to take this
to America so that I oan show it to Mr. JSdison.
Very truly yours,
President .
[ATTACHMENT]
V
May 21st, 7 .
MessrBt Paths Freres,
8, Bus St. Augustin,
Paris .
Dear Sirs,
Mr. Gilmore arrived in London on Saturday and I have seen
him for the first time to-day. He has discussed the question of
purchasing the negatives of your Company, hut instead of which he
makes the following proposition: -
The Edison Company of America shall have the sole right to
reproduce and sell in America positives from the negatives that you ■
will supply to them. They will pay you an agreed price per foot on
all the positives they reproduce and will also pay the duty and freigljli|
charges for the negatives from France to America, hut, they are not to
pay anything for the negatives themselves. 1
Put into a few words, this is the position which Mr. Gilmore j
and Mr. Edison consider exists in America:- There are many Bub'jeota
quite successful in France that would not be attractive in America,
and they do not want to be put to the expense of purchasing all the
negatives at a stated sum per foot, when it is quite possible a large
number so purchased would never be used by them for reproduction at all[.‘
They would, however, undertake to pay you on every foot they manufactur-)
[ATTACHMENT]
\ Messrs. Pathe/ Prerea . g .
ed from the negatives that you supplied to them. This could bo by nay
of an agreed sum per foot or a proportionate sum of the price they
charged when selling in America, but, in any event, they suggest that
instead of buying the negatives and you making a profit on the sale of
the negatives to them, you should make your profit on the sale of the
positives whioh the American Edison Company themselves make and sell
from the negatives which youboharge them nothing for.
The question of difference in tastes in Amerioa and France is
such as to make it too great a risk for the Amerioan Company to pur¬
chase every negative that you produ'ce, and seeing too, that if they did
so purchase them, you would only make one profit, it occurs to me that
it would be a greater advantage to you that the Amerioan Company should
pay you on all .that they sell in Amerioa, after they have so made from
your negatives, and thus give you a permanent or continuing profit
rather than the one profit on the original negative that you send them.
The Edison Company would undertake to thrrougblynadvertise
and catalogue your subjeots and sell them quite as freely as their own,
and you would thus get the advantage of having all the organisation now
existing in Amerioa of the Edison Company placed at your disposal to
give you a profit on the whole of the sales of film whioh the Edison
Company themselves undertake the risk of, while you are only to be put
to the expense of supplying them with one negative from subjects whioh
you oonsider likely to sucoeed in America, or, if you wish, to leave it
to them, to send them one of all the subjects so that they may decide
themselves which they would reproduce their positives from.
The question of selling the coloured films could remain one for
[ATTACHMENT]
■ / A 3 .
Messrs. Paths Preres.
discussion, hut I think that you could probably supply them on termB
to the Edison Company so that they oould sell as your agents - thus
giving you again some of the profits without having the distributing
and other costs and charges that would arise from your own workB in
Amerioa.
If you would like to see Mr. Gilmore and myself after you
have consider this counter proposition that I have made, for discuss¬
ing the amount that should be paid to you per foot on all the positives
that the Edison Company would sell, and no payment to be made for the
negatives, we will meet you in Paris on Monday morning next, and will
leave on Saturday nightnfor that purpose.
Perhaps you will be good enough to reply per return or to
telegraph me if you yould like to have the interview for a discussion
upon the lines I have indicated. My telegraphic address iS "Recon¬
struction, London".
Yours faithfully,
f- & ^
I have gone over fully your letters of the 7th end 8th
instant on the film situation, and I have Just written a long letter
to Pelzer confirming a cable on the Path© proposition. X will
have more to tell you when I see you.
Relative to your letter of the 8th I have done nothing re¬
garding it as yet, "but v/111 go into that carefully and doubtless
write you later.
I am indeed glad that the Pathe negotiations turned out as
they have as from what I can learn it would not he at all inter¬
esting to us for reasons that I have explained in my letter to
Pelzer and which I will explain more 'in detail when I get haok.
Yours very truly,
U.B.G./I.D.
Vice-President .
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Hereafter the cant-iron door and shutter on «w
Hxhibltion P-K- mchina eupercedos the do<« wade . out or ease*
feraae. Please arrange tohare the material on,3l?n4 worked
up and the doors Which ore partly finiehed completed, and then
begin using the caut-iron ehutters exclusively*
p
n 07
M • P . — 74&-rv'-<L. P, j\
[ATTACHMENT!
SALES RESULTING FROM INQUIRIES RECEIVED
FOR
PROJECTING KINETO SCOPES AND FILMS
during the period of fire months
Prom March 1, 1907 . to July 31, 1907.
PUBLICATION
Collier's Weekly
Associated Sunday Magazines
Saturday Evening Post ,
Billboard
Moving Picture World
General (source of which could not)
be traced)
MACHINES
FILMS
415. 50
278.25
28.70
2.40'
141.00
18.60
90.55
4754.57
300.50
$5430.32
$599.75
KINETOGRAPH DEPARTMENT,
Totals
[ATTACHMENT!
EDISON MANUFACTURING CD.
MAIN OFFICE AND FACTORY
ORANGE, N. J.
EDISON PRIMARY BATTERIES AND FAN MDTDR OUTFITS
EDISON PROJECTING KINETDSCDPES AND FILMS.
’lyfmnyWtSr. August
21,
1907.
Hr. W. E. Gilmore, Pres.
Pear Sir:
Purine the period, covered by the enclosed
memorandum, we have spent for advertising $6,159.25, of
this amount §1,890.17, has been spent in Billboard,
§3,524.41 in Hew York Clipper, $420.65 in the Moving
Picture World. The reminder, a total of $304.02,
was spent in Colliers Weekly, Asso. Sunday Magazines,
and the Saturday Evening Post. The advertisements
i# the Bill board and Hew York Clipper are not keyed,
and the business resulting from them probably represents
a large part of the $5,055.07, shown on the attached
report. We have done little advertising in mediums out¬
side of the Billboard and Clipiper for the past few
months, because the Kinetograph Department ceased to
furnish me with any data as to the value of such
advertising, and I had no way of knowing whether or
not it was producing results. The friction between
the Kinetograph Department and my own is most un¬
fortunate and prevents getting the best results
from the money we are spending. Because of our
peculiar relations, I have felt compelled to let Mr.
I.Ioore have his own way concerning advertising and
printing. When v/e were running a small advertise¬
ment in the magazines regularly they produced an
astonishing number of inquiries, but until the enclosed
report came from you, I have never been able to learn
whether or not the inquiries produced business. The
advertisements that we are running in the Billboard
and Clipper are not specially designed to produce
inquiries, a3 they are intended to interest the trade and
such of the theatrical profession as are connected
with motion moving exhibitions. I believe that much
greater results can be produced from this advertising
and at less cost. The contract that we have with the
Moving Picture World, X think, is a waste of money.
Its only function is to bolster up a struggling
[ATTACHMENT!
EDISON MANUFACTURING CO.
MAIN OFFICE AND FACTORY
ORANGE, N. J.
EDISON PRIMARY BATTERIES AND FAN MOTOR OUTFITS
EDISON PROJECTING KINETOSCOPES AND FILMS.
( Lforwycit/v.
publication. If you think that we should, renew our
advertisements in the general magazines, I shall be
glad to discuss the matter with you at any time.
Very truly yours,
(A , K -
WALTER B
A yJ tA A
hKhi%\ '
U Q \ August P6, 19
Mr. W. E. Gilmore, President,
Nat. Phonograph Co. ,
Orange, H. J.
My deal' Gilmore, -
Just returned from Rochester. Mora left the East¬
man Company about two years ago to enter the Automobile Manufactur¬
ing business for himself and is now located at Newark, N. Y. Mr.
Amesjhis successor^ was away on his vacation as was also Mr. Eastman.
I had a very pleasant and satisfactory interview with a Mr. Robinson
who has been with the Company for fifteen years, knows their methods
thoroughly and holds a position next to Mr. Ames. Right off the
reel he expressed most emphatically the opinion that the allowing
of a discount for cash would mean two prices and that having two
prices in the field it would be absolutely impossible to control -
as we now do the one price, in other words within a very short time
after the cash discount scheme was put into effect the established
price of our goods would be that which was represented after the
cash discount had been daducted. He of course v/ould not say positive¬
ly what Mr. Eastman's opinion might be but he felt very confident^
that he, Mr. Eastman, would oppose ary action or method^^^»7^
which would change their conditions of sale in such a manner as to
directly or indirectly allow an article of their manufacture to be ;
sold at two different prices. j
Some years ago when they took over or absorbed the !
Rochester Optical Company and the Blair Camera Company^ they permitted j
their dealers to allow a ten per cent discount from authorised list
WALTER BRIGGS,
SCHENECTADY, N.
prices, on goods manufactured by thenyprovided they were sold on a
spot cash basis. This was done to increase sales as well as to
meet competition. The. scheme however did not work out at all
satisfactory in as much as the net price, after deducting the ten
per cent, was universally adopted by the trade generally as the
standard price,regardless of whether the sales were cash, credit or
installment. They therefore discontinued the cash discount
method as quickly as possible and went back to the one price system
only. So far as the installment business is concerned Mr. Robinson
stated there was but a very small percentage of their goods sold
in this manner and that ihxi he was perhaps unable to express an
intelligent or fair opinion as to what benefits dealers might derive
from being allowed to quote a discount for cash in order to increase
their cash sales and decrease their lease accounts, Regardless
of his not having had ary experience in this direction however, he
still held strongly to the opinion that the only way~by which they,
we or any other concern could maintain prices was by having only'
one price on our goods whether sold for cash on regular terms of
credit or on the installment basis. I could go into this matter
much further but believe I have given you such information as you
desire and as will enable you to determine definitely and beyond
the quest ion of doubt that we want to turn down the five per cent
cash discount proposition and continue as in the past to have one
price only.
Yours very truly,
William 15. Gilmore, Esq.,
Orange, New Jersey.
Dear Sir: —
In reuponee to your inquiry of this morning, and
for the information of Mr. Harding, I heg to Bubmit the
following statement regarding the case against Selig.
The case of Edison against the Selig Polyscope Com¬
pany of Chicago, on the Edison moving picture pamerd patent,
was filed. some time prior to June, 1903. I have not the
exact date in the records here, but it is my impression
that it was in 1902.
Prlma facie proofs were taken on the part of Edison,
the complainant, and the case was then allowed to drag along
to await the outcome of the suit against the American Vita-
graph Company. After a, final decision had been obtained
in the Vitagraph case,holding that claims 1,2 and 3 were
valid and infringed by the Warwick camera and not infringed
by the Biograph camera, a motion for a permanent injunction
was made by J... Edgar Bull, Solicitor in behalf of the com¬
plainant, Mr. Edison, and this mbtion was argued and volumin¬
ous printed griefs filed by the attorneys on each side, in
WEG--2-- Aug.28, 1907
in Judge Kohlsaat's court in Chicago, on the 7th of May,
3,907. A decision upon that motion has not yet 3>een
rendered.
Very truly yours,
HHD/ifJL
NATIONAL
J L.y
rjft.&Jl • • \V,3ffokert . .Brown. .Hird. .Youmans. .Prost:
1\ *J H&ie^ter. Mr. JcLn Pelzer, will have sole charge and control
jf'ifil Mnetograph Dewirtment, that is, both the machine and fUTH
jAdl ml corespondence relating to this department, should he
Dritfinally sent to Mr,\Pelzer, and he will then either attend to
Lt himself , or turn it Vyer to such department as should attend to
it, with the necessary instructions as to how it should he
The Order Department copy ®f" their weekly reports as
use, by Hird & YoumanSj in getting^oar their v/eekly^rep^^
weja as to £ulde them in the ALorre'pondence , or papers
original order, as well as all futu e^goiresp having noted
referring thereto, H aition X question, and then the
thereon the number of the re^®“i°^t \qthem HYiagEEftSS all
man in charge of the yault ^ouid |ttac\ t^^TO^
together, so that w^er} s5alP^®I?^4® exception of the
SiT^SS1- Sfc- A“”s
are to he shipped. responsibility of determining
On Mr. Pelzer, will owed, for any apparatus
how and to whom, should he put through without his
returned, and no c^dits should inBPructions regarding C.O.D.
endorsement. He will als g is if we get a notice that
turn, "will6 confer with Mr. Dolheer
as to what action to take. Pelzer of course, refers to the
The placing in charge of M • >, A T Moore, will con~
factory end of the work °my ; thatis , ^nd he will issue
=na of -
0/7/07.
Copy to Mr# Gi^juore*
/
/
[ENCLOSURE]
KLEINE OPTICAL COMPAN
PROJECTION APPARATUS
My dear Hr. Gilmore
I enclose with this a sheet taken from
"The Show World" issued today, dated November 2nd, and
refer you to the ad of The laemmle Film. Service.
This is a bald cut in price and I think
that some action should be taken to 3top the practice
which has recently been adopted by one other Chicago
concern, according to information which has reached me
although I have not myself noticed their advertisements
GK-HPC .
Enel.
[ENCLOSURE]
Tttt! Slot WOK1S
D //] . P, - Tfew.
II07 P.K
OOMPANY
Messrs. IHKD: A.T. MOOHEj RfiDFOTTr
sr.i'-'ta.
October 30,1907.
BOH:
We have made up on Underwriters Model P. E. machine
with a one pin movement. It is intended to make all exhibition
machines with one pin movement and as soon as these parts ban
be gotten out machines in stock will be changed over. Therefore
please issue chop order immediately for these parts v/hlch are
shown on a single blue print so that purt of the material can
bo ordered and the work can bo pushed ahead.
P. WjffiKTt.
1)^0 4- urn (pi c&-u-<-eo •
The LUMIERE NORTH AMERICAN CO.. Ltd.
LUMIERE-S DRY PLATES, FILMS, PAPERS AND CHEMICALS
AUTOCHROM PLATES FOR PHOTOGRAPHING IN COLORS OF NATURE
Mr. lumiere begs ihe to send you his compliments,
and state to you that he regrets very much that he has not up to now,
owing to s slight illness,^ to go over and photograph you with the Auto-
chrom plates. He also wishes to say to Mrs. liaison that he has not
forgotten her gracious invitation to lunch, and that he has simply p6st~
poned for himself the great pleasure. As soon as the Weather and Mr.
lumiere' s health permit, he will run over and photograph "both you and
Mrs. Edison in colors, ana he is quite sure that the- results will he
pleasing .to all.
Thanking you for your very cordial reception, and
the great interest shown, I beg to remain,
M07
-
Hird,
Redfern & Piles:
12-27-07
Please he advised that we are going to
discontinue the use of our present film winder Catalog K-15020
after the present stock is exhausted. Therefore do not
order any new materials for same. This winder will net he
listed in our new catalog which will he issued shortly after
the first of the year.
Manager jfl
JP/JD
1907. Phonograph - General (D-07-31)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to
the technical and commercial development of phonographs. Among the
items for 1907 are letters from attorney John E. Helm to William E. Gilmore,
president and general manager of the National Phonograph Co., regarding
insurance policies for the phonograph company and other Edison concerns;
suspected embezzlement and mismanagement by employees of the Edison
Phonograph Works and other Edison interests; and the status of non-
Edison companies in which Helm, Gilmore, and other Edison personnel were
involved. Also included are several letters written by Gilmore during his visit
to Europe in June 1907; reports to Edison from Leonard C. McChesney,
manager of the Advertising Department of the National Phonograph Co.; and
correspondence with the International Correspondence Schools of Scranton,
Pennsylvania, users of Edison phonographs.
Approximately 50 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected include the bylaws for La Compania Edison Hispano-
Americana, an Edison subsidiary in Argentina; routine reports by McChesney,
some enclosing advertisement copy; a letter regarding copyright litigation not
involving Edison; and documents that duplicate information in selected
material.
NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH CD.
ORANGE, N.J.
EDISON PHDNDBRAPHS & REEDRDS.
• Orange, N.J.
Dear Sir:
We have placed an order with Calkins & uolden for advertising
the "Edison Business Phonograph in daily papers named "below and at the
line rate indicated. Our plan provides for running a total of 800 lines
of space ( 57 11 ) in the first month and a total of 500 lines (36") in
subsequent months. Advertisements will appear twice each week in each
paper. The total cost of this advertising will be #2332.88 for the first
month and #1458.05 each subsequent month. It is our intention to watch
it closely and discontinue it at any time should it not produce the
results we expect. In any case the contract is to run longer than six
months without further instructions.
CITY
How York
Boston
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Buffalo
PAPER
Sun
Times
Journal of Commerce
Herald
C-lobe
NET RATE PER: LINE.
.36
.36
.18
.27
.27
Tribune .234
Rec. Herald .216
Ho. American .2125
Ledger .204
Dispatch .081
Press ,102
Courier & Inquirer .102 .
L&press .0595
, 2.651 "
10/»--Agts. Com. _ .2651
2 . 916 1~
Very truly yours ,
NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH CO. ,
Advertising Department u
Mr. C. H. Wilson:
Cpnfirming telephone message to Mr. Ireton
this morning, will you kindly get the Penn Phonograph Co. 1
of Philadelphia on the telephone and ask them to have a man
take a Home Phonograph with 30" horn and stand or crane and
full sot of the Dance records listed on Eorm 635, also record
Ho. 510 "Blue Danube Walts" , to
Miss Madeleine Edison,
Bryn Kawr College,
Bryn Mawr, Pa,
as she wants to use this outfit tomorrow night. Kindly ask
them to have the outfit thoroughly tested, etc., and sot up
ready for UBe.
Have this charged hack to the national Phonograph Co., and
if you will send the hill to me X can arrange to have it charged
up to/ Mr. Edison.
1/11/07. I. W. Walker.
NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH GO.
ORANGE, N. J.
EDISON PHONOGRAPHS & RECORDS.
"Deal- Sir:
In consequence of the opening; of the Cincinnati branch,
Commercial Department, and at the request of Hr. Durand, we have arranged
to continue in Cincinnati the same advertising that we are doing in
six other cities for the Commercial Department. The same copy and same
sise space will he used. The papers and cost are as follows:
Very truly yours,
NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH CO. ,
. Advertising Department,
[ENCLOSURE]
Using Your Time to
Better Advantage
&T The Edison Com-
mercial System is a
method of taking care of
correspondence by means
of the Edison Business
Phonograph, It is more
than merely a Phonogranh
to dictate to. It is a sys¬
tem which makes your en¬
tire office force more com-
1 petent.
An Edison Business
Phonograph does not do
away with the services of
a stenographer or make
possible cheaper help. It
requires just as much in¬
telligence to handle cor¬
respondence from an
Edison Business Phono¬
graph as it does from sten¬
ographic notes. What it
does do is this. It makes
both your time and the time
of the stenographer more
profitable. A good type¬
writer will do more and
better work with an Edison
Business Phonograph than
without, no matter how
good a stenographer she
is. Your time and the time
of the stenographic de¬
partment is utilized to bet¬
ter advantage.
The system by which
this is accomplished is bet¬
ter explained in a personal'
interview than in an adver¬
tisement. The point is
that it can be explained
and demonstrated to any
business man who wishes
':o give it a trial. If you’ll
r phone, we’ll do
- The office below
is the only branch in New
York City directly repre-
[ENCLOSURE]
A Stenographer That’s
Always Ready
Much time is lost in a
^1, business office, no
matter how light the steno¬
graphic work, because it is
impossible for each man
who dictates to secure a
stenographer when he
wants one.
The Edison Business
Phonograph does not do
away with the stenog¬
rapher— it makes her time
more valuable to her em¬
ployer and to herself.
The Edison Business
Phonograph is installed
from a series of branch
offices, directly represent¬
ing Mr. Edison and his
works at Orange, N. J.
The only place in New
York where you can study
this system is at the offices
of the
[ENCLOSURE]
Can’t Read Each1
Other’s Notes
Few stenographers,
can read the notes of
other stenographers. Any
stenographer can read an‘
Edison Record.
When you have dicta
your letters to an Edi
Business Phonograph y
del?yed. It can be tran-
scribed by any typewriter
operator. Why not ask us'
to call and explain the sys¬
tem fully ?
Inquire only at the office'
below, which is the sole
branch in New York of Mr,
Edison s Works at Orange,'
[ENCLOSURE]
Your Business
Machinery
CThe transaction of
business has been
made easier by the inven¬
tion of business machinery,
such as the typewriter, the
telephone, the adding ma¬
chine, the cash register
and the cash-carrier.
The latest important ad¬
dition to the machinery by
which business is trans¬
acted is the Business Phon¬
ograph.
Thomas Alva Edison,
who has invented more im- '
portant devices for the use
of the civilized world than
any other one man, has
produced the most perfect
form of business phono¬
graph.
A Business Phonograph
will soon be a necessity
in every business house,
just as the typewriter is
to-day.
A business phonograph
does not do away with your
stenographers, but makes
those stenographers more
profitable to you and more
profitable to themselves.
The cost of the Edison
Business Phonograph has
been brought down by
economy- of -manufacture
to less than the cost of a
typewriter, and the actual
cost of maintenance is less
than the necessary cost of
note books and pencils for
the ordinary stenographer.
Call oraddress, telephone
or telegraph this office for
information, proof and
quick service. The only
branch in New York of a
series of offices directly
representing Mr. Edison
and his works at Orange,
, N. J.
NATIONAL
[ENCLOSURE]
Mr. Edison’s Branch
Offices
The Edison Business
Phonograph i s n o t
sold in stores. It is dem¬
onstrated from a system of
offices, one in each large
city, of which system Mr.
Edison in his laboratory at
Orange is the head.
The Edison Business
[ENCLOSURE]
Vigor in
Correspondence.
d\ Much of, the fresh-.
ness and aptness, of;'
your replies to business
letters evaporates because
you are not able to dictate;
your replies at once. With,
an Edison Business Phon¬
ograph you reply as you
read your mail, saving the
time required to read it
twice and securing a di-.
rectness and emphasis
which is lost if letters wait.
Every business man frames
a reply to a letter as he "
reads it. The Edison Busi¬
ness Phonograph makes it .
possible for him to record
the reply while it is in hi^
mind.
The installation of the
Edison Business Phono¬
graph in your business
would simplify many things.
All we want is an opportu¬
nity to show you how.
Write or telephone to or .
• call at the office below —
the New York branch of a
system of offices directly '
representing Mr. Edison,
and his works at Orange,
[ENCLOSURE]
Not Until You’re
Convinced
We will not sell any-
body an Edison Busi¬
ness Phonograph until that
-man is convinced that the
Edison Commercial Sys¬
tem is better than his pres¬
ent one. We are more in¬
terested in proving to the
business world that the
Edison Phonograph is a
necessary adjunct to busi¬
ness machinery than we
.are in selling any particular
machine or set of machines.
We realize that the Edison
Business Phonograph is
going to occupy as impor¬
tant a place in the machin¬
ery of an office as the type¬
writer does now and all we
ask is an opportunity to
showthe business man how
it works and what it will
do. Whether he buys or
not is incidental. All we
. ask now is his interest.
If you wish to find out
more about the Edison
Phonograph, it is only nec¬
essary to telephone or
drop a line to the office be¬
low, the only place in New
York from which the Edi¬
son Commercial System is
installed.
[ENCLOSURE]
It is Easier
CIt is easier to dictate
to an Edison Busi¬
ness Phonograph than to a
stenographer, once you ac¬
custom yourself to it.
It is easier for a stenog¬
rapher to transcribe from
an Edison Record than
from her notes, once she
becomes familiar with the
system.
The Edison Commercial
System is simpler and more
profitable than your pres¬
ent one. It adds to your
own capacity and to the'
capacity of your office'
force.
The cost of the Edison
Business Phonograph has
been brought down to less
than the cost of a type¬
writer. You would not for
an instant think of doing
business without a type¬
writer, and in a few years
from now you would not
think of doing business’
without an Edison Busi-
ness Phonograph.
We do not wish to sell
you a Phonograph now—
first we expect to prove to
you wherein the use of this
>n connection with .
the Edison Business Phon-
ograph will increase the
facility and output of your
office force without in
any way adding to its
friction.
Call oraddress, telephone
or telegraph this office for
information, proof and
quick service. The only
branch in New York of a
series of offices directly
representing Mr. Edison '
aiffi his works at Orange, •
NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH CO.
[ENCLOSURE]
We Do Not Wish to
Sell You an Edison
Business Phonograph
Now
4] We wish to explain
the Edison Commer¬
cial System, whereby the
stenographers you have
will be able to do more
work and do it better and
under more satisfactory
conditions. We do not pro¬
pose to show you how you
can use cheaper help, but
shall expect to prove to
you that your present help
will be more valuable to
you and therefore more
valuable to themselves.
That, briefly, Is the Edison
Commercial System, util¬
izing the Business Phon¬
ograph.
Call or address, tele¬
phone or telegraph this
office for information, proof
and quick service. The
only branch in New York
of a series of offices direct-
lv reoresenting Mr. Edison
\
Mr. Edison:
Please note a/ftk^h'e'cl letter from Mr. Durand. I dti^not
know whether you care to do this or not, hut as these pepfi e are
very good customers I see no objection to your signing the communi¬
cation. If, therefore, you approve of it, Mr. Rudolph can have the
letter which you are to sign printed on a Laboratory letter head
and then you can attach your signature to it, and I will see that it
is transmitted to Mr. Seits through Mr. Durand.
2/4/07. W. E. Gilmore.
Enc-
[ENCLOSURE]
MEMORANDUM
NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH CO.
MAIN OFFICE, ORANGE, N. J.
BOSTON OFFICE, 702 P. O. SQUARE BUILDING
BUFFALO OFFICE, BSQ ELLICOTT SQUARE
CHICAGO OFFICE. 304 WABASH AVE.
NEW YORK OFFICE, 31 UNION SQUARE
PITTSBURG OFFICE, ROOMS 303-304 MACHESNEY B
PHILADELPHIA OFFICE, 1117 NORTH AMERICAN BLC
Oran®* Jan. 24, 1907.
Mr. W. E. Gilmore, Pres’t.,
Dear Sir:*
* ■ .Q . . Attached please find letter from
A' Vice-President, International Correspondence
is^deavori™ iB the laSt letter in a correspondence in which he
is endeavoring to secure an endorsement from- Mr. • Edison that he
2?® xnq ve^tZ wil1 Jake charee Foreign Agencies
tha+^ and,beine a particular friend of mine thought
that Mr. S»ismn«s endorsement in connection with the start of the
business in England would he of immense benefit to him.
, 1 kav® nailed Seitz to writing an endorsement
such as h- would like to have and have been very careful inmy
Shin’S"*. t0, Promise nothing, and explained that this matter
lia7e to lie taken up in a very formal manner with you, without
any knowledge of the outcome of the suggestion from myself!
ohn a +„ +v. consider ray position in Ytfiich I am
conveni ait time Smit thiS t0 yoU and give me your rePly at a
[ENCLOSURE]
G^<vce'feA't><y
Inferiiatioiial Textbook Company
International Gorrespoiulencc Schools
-fy. Jan. 23, 1907.
Mr. Nelson C. Durand.,
National Phonograph Co.,
Orange, N. J.
My dear Durand
Referring to your letter of January 21st
and to pur previous correspondence: I am attaching
hereto copy for a letter which I think will meet
with Mr. Edison's approval.
As I told you in my last letter, I will
personally very greatly appreciate your kindness
in this matter, and assure you that I will he
glad to reciprocate whenever the opportunity
offers.
With kind regards to yourself and the
balance of the family, 1 remain,
Answered.
[ENCLOSURE]
Hr. ThOB. J. Foster, President,
International Correspondence Schools,
Scranton, Pa.
Pear Sir:-
I am glad to learn that you are about
to extend to foreign countries the benefits of
your facilities for technical education.
I am sure that, in this movement,
the International Correspondence Schools will meet
with the success that is merited by its splendid
results here - results of benefit to employe and
employer alike.
Your system of specialized education
will fill a great need abroad in the rapidly
expanding field of Electricity, - a field of
splendid opportunities for men who acquire the
necessary technical training through such
thorough and practical Courses as you offer.
Very truly yours,
")>! £
NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH COMPANY
FOREIGN DEPARTMENT
yor seven months , 18-20 hours daily „ X experimented on one
single word "Specie". As often as I spoke "Specie" into the phono¬
graph,; the apparatus always obstinately answered "pecia" pecia";. One
might have gone crazy over It I X did not let myself become discour¬
aged, however, but worked on just as obstinately,, until I obtained
what I wanted,
Edison.
12 o'clock at Night!
Be ready-—- to die!
Edison's private phonograph repeats these significant wordB
every night to its alever and undismayed inventor.
.Edison does not believe that matter Jib -an inert masB. Every
small particle thereof seeraB to him to be endowed with a certain
amount of original intelligence. This intelligence,, however,, can
be imparted to it only by a Godlike Being presiding over Nature and
everybody must arrive at a belief in the existence of Buch a Being
who endeavor b to penetrate the secrets of Nature.
Edison Phonograph Review,, lBt April,, 07
My dear Mr. Gilmore:-
I have had several interviews with Horton and
he has promised faithfully that he will do his best to gather up
enough money to pay the National at least fifty per cent before you
return. At the present time his available assets amount to noth¬
ing, virtually.
At the first interview I had with him he apologized for
his actions toward you when he last saw you and said he was very
sorry that he had allowed his condition of mind to get to a point
where it jeopardized his interest and hiB standing with you.
From letters and correspondence and stock that he has
shown me I believe that the '.stock, that he has in a mining company
will in the near future sell at a price that will allow him to rea¬
lize sufficient funds to pay you in full. The mining property
is owned at the present time by an estate which, I understand, is
selling out to some large mining company who promise to immediately
start operations to put the mine on a paying basis, as it was before
the death of the principal owner.
Under the laws of New Jersey we have two years- in which
to obtain an . indictment againBt him for embezzlement or grand lar¬
ceny. This limit of two years is conditioned, upon his staying,
within the jurisdiction of this State; should he, however, leave the
state (which he has done and is now living in New York) the Statute
of limitations would not operate and we would have unlimited time
to have him indicted and prosecuted.
The crime he haB committed is extraditable from any part
of the world, so there is no danger of his getting away from us.
He is to see me next Tuesday, to meet Westee, O'Hagan and myself to
go over all the searches, Btraighten out all the papers and also
give me an accurate statement of all his assets and liabilities.
It has been quite a hard matter to get in personal touch
with him, but at present he is willing to, and does come to my
office, and is willing to go to the Works to meet Westee and O'Hagan
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and straighten out everything.
I will write you again on Tuesday as to what happened at
the interview.
Youre very truly,
My dear Mr. Gilmore
/ Wes tee, Buehler and myself have had a number of
conferences in reference to Harrison and yesterday afternoon we con¬
fronted him with what appeared to him absolute evidence of his guilt
in tampering with the pay envelopes. I had Buehler prepare a state¬
ment for me and give me the book containing the unclaimed wage ac¬
count together with a large stack of slips signed by the employees
and went at Harrison in the presence of Buehler and V/estee , and
openly accused him of robbing the Works and the National to the
tune Of $10,000. or more. I also told him we had aadtf^right as
reports from Finkerl2|i6 would prove to him. After a half hours
session 1 gave him the alternative of either having me place the
entire matter in the hands of the American Surety Company, who are
his bondsmen, or have him make a settlement in cash, or otherwise,
with us.
He at first said that he would, if necessary, face the
lawyers of the American Surety Company or any jjtidge and prove that
he was innocent, but after I got through with him and put the other
proposition, which was that he give us notes payable within one
year, all the caBh he possessed and other personal, property, he
agreed to do so if the thing was kept quiet.
I demanded a^^Ie^from him of^what his personal property
consisted, and he said that every dollar he had was one hundred and
some odd dollars in cash and fifteen shares of Cement stock. I
cornered him by asking him what he did with the $2000. he drew from
the Second National 3ank of Orange and he openly stated that he had
lost it at the races; then 1 demanded to know where he had banked
all the money he had taken from the Works and he denied that he had
everybanked any. So 1 took a note from him for $2000. payable to
the Works and $2000. payable to the National one year from date, and
fifteen shares of the Edison Portland Cement stock and one hundred
dollars in cash.
As he was about to sign the notes he became very pathetic,
denying his guilt and crying like a baby. However, he signed the
notes and after ward turned around in his chair and with sobs and
tears remarked. "My God, 1 never thought I took that much ~ I know
I didn't take that much." Then he came over to Westee and myself and
asked us to excuse him for Mb excitement and had us promise that
we would not mention anything to anybody, after that he had another
crying session and left the Works.
JOHN E. HELM
Newark, N. J. , June 7th, 1907.
William E. Gilmore, Esq.,
25 Clerkenwell Road,
London, England.
My dear Mr, Gilmore:-
In re MADISON & COMPANY : Things are going along
in fine shape, the businesi- clone during’'tlie' month of May shows an
increase of $3000. over the month of April. The total goods hilled
and work done in May showing $10,100. Of course we are having the
same old scraps with McChesney, otherwise everything is running smooth¬
ly.
In re NOLAN COMMISSION COMPANY: Things are progressing
very nicely with the~except ion that the States of Pennsylvania and
Massachusetts have passed laws .with very stringent provisions against
stockbrokers' houses, and tonight Nolan goes to Connecticut to see
whether some influence cannot he brought to bear to knock the bill
in reference to brokers, which comes up tonight in the Connecticut
legislature.
In re MORTGAGE. 216 MARKET STREET: Plenty of money to
take care of 'thV mortgage this "time without touching you.
In re HELM REALTY & IMPROVEMENT CO: Gilmore, Weber, Westee
and myself each hold ten shares of stock in ihe above named company.
The purpose of the Company is to hold, buy and sell real estate and
deal in it generally. Peter Weber is President, A. Westee Treasurer,
Helm Secretary and Gilmore a stockholder of the Company, eaoh put
up a thousand dollars. The company has bought five lots on KLing
Street at a very reasonable price and has also purchased from the
National the vacant hmlses . on the lots purchased by it from the
different owners who sold the property to the National. The price
for these houses, and the consideration will be finally fixed by
yourself.
When I say purchased five lots each lot iB 50 x 100, giv¬
ing us really ten lots.
In re PUTCHER RULING & BINDING CO. : Eor which you handed
me $2000. "before you went away.' ' ' ~"
Just getting plant equipped with new machinery and expect
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to have it in full running order within ten days. Plant taking
care of itself with the old machinery as far as expense is concern¬
ed.
Trusting that yourself and Mrs. Gilmore are having a very
pleasant time, and with kind regards to all, I am,
Yours sincerely,
J., June 7th, 1907.
25 Clerkenwell Road,
London, England,
In re INSURANCE MATTER.
My dear Mr, Si^more:-
I have had several interviews and conferences
with Messrs. Edison, WeBtee, Dyer and Pelzer in reference to carry¬
ing your own insurance on the Works, the National and the Manufactur
ing Company, Doth fire and accident. I have formulated a scheme
following closely on the lines adopted hy the largest corporations
in the State and the plan adopted hy the City of Newark. The only
thing at present that is holding up the adoption of the plan is
the reply from the Fidelity Trust Company, trustees for the Edison
Phonograph Works 1 bondholders. The Trust Company as trustees under
the bond and mortgage are required to demand a certain amount of
insurance from the Works to insure the bondholders against any loss
by fire. My letter has been referred to the Fidelity legal Depart¬
ment and I expect a reply from them within a day or two as to what
they will require to protect themselves should the plan go through.
The same plan will be adopted for the National and the
Manufacturing Company, and in these cases, of course, there will be
no necessity for delay and the plan will be adopted some time this
or next week.
If you will remember, the discussion between yourself, Mr,
WeBtee and myself showed that the combined insurance paid by the
different companies for both fire and accident amounted to about
$50,000. a year, and the only loss by fire that your Companies have
shown in the last ten or twelve years havebeen trifling losses
amounting in all to about $6000., taking this loss into considera¬
tion at times when the property owned by the different companies
was of a very hazardous nature compared to the present condition of
the buildings, which are virtually fire-proof, we deemed it a very
wise move to carry and underwrite your own insurance.
Just as soon as I hear from the Trust Company I will let
you know how things are progressing.
Yours very truly,
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_ J-une..21st.)_19Q7.- . .
Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Edison laboratory,
Orange, Hew Jersey, U.S.A.
My dear Mr. Edison,
I have not written you since I left London for the simple
reason that 1 have been unable to secure a satisfactory English
stenographer in Paris, Brussels, or Berlin.
We got. bach here late yesterday afternoon; in the meantime I
had sent, for a stenographer to come from the London office.
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The matter of reducing the price of standard records' vra.s de¬
cided upon early in the month, and circular letters to the -jobbers
and dealers were issued as of June 8th. Under the terms of the
English agreement 60 days’ notice must be given of any changes,
therefore this reduction in price will not become operative until
August 8th when the price of records to the public will be 1/-
or 25 cents. Since it has become known that we purpose reducing
our price to 1/- it has created quite some excitement in the trade,
particularly with our competitors. The only competitors that we
have to really deal with in the British Isles are the Edison^Bell
Company and the Bus sell -Hun ting Company who manufacture what is
known as the Sterling record. You will remember that both of
these concerns made up last Pall a record that was longer than our
record; and they made a great talk about it. We found, however, that
the amount of matter on these records is about the same as on our
records in nearly all cases , the exceptions being few and far
between. It did not take long for not only the dealers but the
public as well to learn this fact and the excitement created at the
time has died out absolutely.
Mr. Schermerhorn and I talked with several of the jobbers
relative to this change before it was made effective and the con-
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sensus of opinion waB that we would increase our business very
materially. However, the future can only determine this. Gener¬
ally speaking our records are considered the best on the market as
to quality.
I referred in my previous letter to the new plant that we pur¬
pose taking on in England. We now have an absolute offer of the
rental of the place at £750 or 03750 on a lease of seven years,
and thereafter at the rate of £800 or £4000 per annum. I have
hot decided the matter absolutely and will not do so until we get
back to London. The plant is very much larger than what we
actually need, but it may be found necessary to utilise portions
of it for other purposes later. If, for instance, we want to start
manufacturing the storage battery in a small way a certain portion
of the plant can be set aside for this purpose, and the buildings
are so arranged that it would not in any way conflict with the
phonograph business.
- In addition to the above rental we, of course, have to pay
the taxes which would be one-third of the amount of the rent:
The property is located in a manufacturing district, and help can
be obtained readily, although we will not be able to secure help
as cheaply as we do in Brussels, still there is no doubt but that
we can produce a larger quantity of records which would offset
the increased wages that we would be compelled to pay: As I have
already indicated to you the property is practically new; built of
brick, and thoroughly up-to-date:
,, situation in Paris I find has improved Bomewhat, but the
Managing Director, Mr. Galloway , has had ±3s#'most strenuous time of
r .of11 straightening out the bad performances* of his predecessor.
I find that Mr. Kaltenecker, although designated as the Managing
Director, acted more as a figure-head than anything else, and a man
?Lt+einaJ?e °f wh0 h»d charge of the recording plant, hiring
orchestra; bands, and so forth, was also in charge of
the ordering of all stationery and printing, as well as the adver-
tising, and the prices paid for everything under his administration
was in some cases 3?V5 per cent higher than is now paid. You can
of course , draw your own conclusions. Mr. Galloway oame into the ’
business_not at all acquainted with it, and it took some time for
him to eliminate not only Rummel but all the subordinates that he
^,bef°re he got through he practically cleaned out the en¬
tire office force and has started everything anew. There have
colocations, as the Preneh law is peculiar in tha‘t
position 5aTe !°+5e e3T?n t0 a11 °l®rks, and the higher the
In the different the notice. What I mean by this is that
in some cases you can dispense with an employe’s services upon
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thirty days’ notice, whereas in others the notice must he six
months, law suits are consequently very much in vogue here.
However, the offices have been moved to new and much better
quarters and everything seems to be going along very satisfactory.
It is our intention to reduce the price of records here, but
it will not be on the same basis as the British Isles or elsewhere
as we have, of course, the Authors’ tickets to consider. You will
remember that where we have to purchase these Authors’ tickets
for use in connection with vocal records the cost of each ticket
is about four cents.
Mr. Graf was with us ten days ago'; and we have gone over the
situation most thoroughly, and it is his intention to begin an
active campaign in the late summer so aB to endeavour to get a
larger portion of the business throughout Prance.
Mr. Waddington, who is connected with Morgan & Company,
ascertained in some way that I was in town and wrote^dsking me to
call. I was just leaving for Brussels and told him that I would
look him up when I got back: I am hoping to see him early next
week. I presume what he wants to see me about is the storage
battery.
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We left here for Brussels a week ago yesterday and stayed
with Riehl to look over the manufacturing situation and such other
matters as he had to take up on Priday and Saturday when we went on
to Berlin. >
The Brussels factory is not large enough to meet all demands
in the busy season, and we are all certain that they will not be
able to cope with the business later on. Mr. Riehl has a very
clean nice factory there ; in fact it would be a fine object lesson
to our people in Orange if they could see it. Their production is
about 5000 records per day at the present time, and this can be
increased to 70*000 records per week. Of course this plant is
utilised not only for records for the British Isles but for
Belgium q/id Holland; and; in fact, for all other coluitries than
Germany and Austria, and it is a grave question as to whether they
will be able to take care of the business when the new reduced
price becomes effective. This is another reason why we have' got
to get a larger plant; and as I have alreq&y written you we will
doubtless have to begin the manufacture of new records under our
patents in the British Isles, and there is no reason why they
should not be all made there.
I intended to add above that at the present time we are paying
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for the Brussels factories, the store-houses and offices in
Clerkenwell Road, a total of £7800 per year. Under the new con¬
ditions should we decide to take the plant at Willesden Junction
above mentioned the total rentals with all taxes added will be in
the neighbourhood of £5000 per annum.
It is the intention^to move the Book-keeping Department, and
in fact all the officers £ the new plant, and Hr. Graf will only
have iJte/London offioe'for himself and such other employes as
he may require there to look after the selling end of the business,
and this additional expense should not exceed what we are at present
paying.
The visit of Aylesworth was of great benefit to Mr. Riehl as
he was working more or less in the dark trying to discover the
cause of the trouble with records, which trouble we had also ex¬
perienced in America about October of last year. Then again Mr.
Aylesworth was able to proceed to the factories of the ebonite
people to learn the method of production, and other information that
he has obtained will no doubt prove most valuable to us in the
future. He, doubtless, will have talked with you direct on this
however; and as 1 did not see him before he left you will know more •
about it than I can write you.
BBRLIH. -
lie arrived in Berlin and looked over the general situation
then. You will remember that when X left America I told you that
Mr. Graf was firmly convinced that it would not be necessary to
reduce our price on records in Germany, but since then he has had
good reason to change his mind. The suit which we had against
the Columbia Phonograph Company in Germany on the Desbriere patents
was decided against us in the First Court. It has been appealed
and we had a long conference with Dr. Seligsohn. our Attorney; who
feels that on the appeal our case will be sustained, as the intro¬
duction of new evidence will,. he feels satisfied, be beneficial
to our cause. In any event we have decided' that if the case is
decided against us in the second instEuice we shall appeal to the
Third and last Court where the prospects are that we can secure a
final decision in our favour; at least this is the general opinion
of both of our Attornies, the other being Dr. Katz. However, the
decision being against us in the First Court; and the further fact
that it does not seem judicious to hold up prices in all other
countries than the British Isles has caused us to come to the con¬
clusion that it would be far better to reduce the price to Mk. 1.00
or 25 cents in Germany. If we do so it will be a body -blow to
our competitors, and Germany is full of them. True, they are not
very strong in most instances but it is the small manufacturer that
iB doing more harm than the larger manufacturers.
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Another very had feature in Germany is the duplication of
records. I am informed hy our Counsel that there is no law
in Germany that will prevent the duplication of records where the
announcement has been eliminated, hut in accordance with your
policy I have instructed them to go into the matter most care¬
fully, and I am hoping to take hack with me a written opinion on
the subject with suggestions as to what is the best course to
pursue should this duplication become extensive. To-day it is
being carried on by a few small concerns having no responsibility
whatever. I was very strong on this point and X feel sure that
the justice of our situation can be brought so forcibly to the
attention of the Court that we will, in the end, be able to secure
a decision that will prevent this sort of thing being carried on.
I find that the Gramophone Company did bring suit for duplica¬
tion of their record some years ago, but the case was compromised.
The fact'jjthe matter is the Zonophone Company were the culprits
(then operated by ]?. M. Prescott). In the compromise the Gramo¬
phone Company bought up the Zonophone Company after a decision had
been rendered against them (The Gramophone Company) in the First
Court .
Graf has everything in shape in Germany and intends to take
up and push actively the sale of our goods in Austria. Duties will
compel him to increase his prices all around, but he feels certain
that a large business can be done, and I have given him full
authority to go ahead.
X find that the factory plant in Berlin, although sufficiently
large for the purpose at the present time, will not take care of our
future requirements , and as the lease expires in September of
next year it is almost certain that the owner of the building
will require the premises for his own use: The same remark will
apply to the offices which are located in the same building, the
latter lease expiring April 1st, 1908.
This again brings up the question of a manufacturing plant
for Germany. We looked over a new and up-to-date factory with
ample room for office purposes, and although no decision has been
reached I will decide this matter before I return when I expect
that all facts in connection with the amount of rental, length of .
lease; changes and so forth; will be put before me by the owner:
I have only given you the important matters that I have looked
into and with which I 3m ow you want to be acquainted: There are
a great many other things that we have taken up and settled which
it is not necessary to write about.
Mr. Bergman, I learn j returned about June 1st, and was im¬
mediately ordered by his physician to go to Kissingen for a rest
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of three weeks. X understand that he will get hack next Monday
although before I left Berlin they had no definite information.
You doubtless can judge by his visit as to whether it was neces¬
sary for him to take a rest. He still continues to operate the
entire plant; and it has grown very materially since I was last
'Chare. I did not, of course, have the pleasure of meeting him.
Yours very truly,
[FROM WILLIAM E. GILMORE]
June 82nd, 1907.
Johns* Helm, Esq., .
Prudential Buildings,
Newark, New Jersey.
Mjr dear Kr. Helm,
, J^rebeived your four letters dated June 7.th in Berlin
*• «*»>:,«•.
»tt.i P0*" “r- »;•“« regarding tho Horrt.on
“d J had.been aoojiainted with tho suspicions
rt^l.e?n*1!nmn^oonoe3med there was nothing
J l0ft An?rloa* 1 ““ indeed: sorry that a man of
tr ®x.y!*r* flll<,u- d lmv0 allowed himBelf to he tempted in this way.
&e had a responsible position, and X am afraidhe will nevar^e able
?«°are ^thef ot a almllai nature. Of ooSral r^otseebut
what he would aot as you indioate in your letter.
y0U a mo about the business Of Madison & Company
ifl Indeed gratifying. I hope that the "soraps" with Mr.
MoChesnsy amount to little, if anything.
fle-nJL*1"? SSi® ^ about tho Holan Commission .
2H£*2?f - notiood in. the papers that Pennsylvania and
law* that would not be bene fio ltd,
arid. 4f .all the other. States nantlnn. ♦« a* nv-«g— a
bad^lowto. their
Other^Statss continue to do, likewise it will be a’
,1T' interests. . ... ■
Siad'to learn that youhave .suf fio lent money to. take
oars of the mortgage interest on 216 Market Street. '
Company is something new, ,.i
ggygg 4f *he evolution of youi; brain. , X note the off lo4s of
the Company. X will not send you my oheque for SIOOO blit will
^nj. It to yon when I get baok. If you need the money tell Mr.
? J? adTan08 ii *® you for ay aooount. X presume that you
will tell me more about this when I get baok. * : \
I note what you toll me about the Dutoher Bullng & Binding
Company. I hope that this will he a success.
I have road over the letter about Horton. I advised you be¬
fore I left of the conversation that 1 had with this gentleman.
At that time his condition was suoh that I felt satisfied that he
was not right mentally, either due to drink or drugs. However, 1
had no time to disouss the situation with him and simply told him
that the question at issue was closed so far as 1 was concerned.
There is no doubt but that he was then and is even now in desperate
shape financially. This is his own doings and therefore he. must
take the consequences. X shall, of course, be glad to learn the
result of your next interview but if you have not written, me by
the time you receive this letter hold the matter opon until I; re¬
turn. As I told ybu before I left we want to get all the informa¬
tion possible out o,'f him as to the land condition, deeds, mortgages
and bo forth, and thereafter we can determine what bourse shall
be pursued so far as he is concerned.
X also have your very full and complete letter about the
handling of insuranoe of the Works, the national, and the Manufaotur-
igg Company. The policy adopted is approved. I sincerely hope and
trust that you will be able to make a satisfactory arrangement with
the Pidellty Trust Company Trustees for the bond-holders of the
Edison Phonograph Works. I had a lettor from Mr. Wastes stating
that a quantity of these bonds have already been purohased in the
open market, and there is no reason why we should not bo able to
make some arrangement whereby remission will be guaranteed as to
principal and interest if we are unable to buy them up.' X am in¬
deed glad that you have written me so fully regarding this matter.
I have had a most strenuous time since X got over here. I
found a great deal to do, hut did take one holiday whilst In XAndon
when Mr. and Mrs. Soheimorhora and Mrs. Gilmore and mysblf went
out -to see the English Derby. . The sight was most interfiittog.
So far as X can see now I expect to oompleto my work' over here
so as to sail baok about July 10th. I will settle the matter when
I get to london the latter end of next week.
Mrs. Gilmore baa had a most pleaeant time ever since we
left America.
I shall cable the Hew York office saaotly,w*wn I wlll iearJL. ,
and if you will keep in touch with Mr. Pelsor or Mr. -Stpfons-iSiajfc .
will acquaint you with my movements so that ;you can df terras Jfhsn
to disoontinue writing me further. " ’ i'. ■ r
With best wishes to your good self in which Mrs. Gilmore joins
me i ■ h
Believe me to be,
Yours very truly
Pttcr'J f'f1- '
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS:
BEflGPHU EIiEGTttIGAIi WORKS
23-32 OUDENARDER STR.
Machine Department.
Continuous Current Generators
for Direct Coupling and Beit Driving,
Special Motors
with Wide Range Speed Regulation
for Driving Rotary Printing Presses,
Cranes, Lifts, Calanders
and Paper Machines.
Motor-Dynamos, Balancers, Boosters.
Thomas A. Edison Esq.
llewwellyn Park,
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My dear Edison:
Enclosed please find a trial balance
of the "-^eutsche Grammophon Aktiengesellschaft",
which is certainly a very fine showing. While I read
Automobile Motors.
Alternating Current Machinery
for all Standard Voltages and
Periodicities.
Generators, Motors and
Transformers
for Single, Two and Three Phase Current.
Controllers and Resistances
for operating Cranes, Hoists and Lifts
with Direct and Alternating Current
this through it struck me why. you *M-not start ma-
th»<,
nufacturing phonographs, granmphons, disc aaoMweg,
etc. over here in German#. I am confident it would
be an immense success. I would guarantee to get you
a competent business manager over here, who is tho¬
roughly acquainted with German, English and French,
in fact , it is the manager in body and sotA of the
Deutsche Grammophon Aktiengesellschaft, and I know
Starting and Regulating
Switches
for Direct and Alternating Current
Motors and Generators.
Electric Ventilators
Exhaustors
High Pressure Blowers
Ventilating Fans
tor Direct and Alternating Current.
that three quarters of the success of this concern
is due to him. The whole secret of making such an
enterprise a commercial success is simply hy getting
the right manager.
The manufacturing part would simply mean copy¬
ing exactly what you are doing over in America, and
sending over a couple of good men with the necessary
BERGMANN ELECTRICAL WORKS (machine department).
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Thomas A. Edition , Esq. , Llewellyn Park.
tools and I am Bure that even at this late day you would reap the full
■benefit of your Invention and get square with the Qrammophone Crowd.
Please do not misconstrue this letter. Although it is none
of ny business, X cannot understand why you start building a factory
in England, where there is no duty on Records, and the freight on this
product is mere nothing, but the price of labor is much higher than
here in Germany or any where else.
Once more I ain absolutely sure that if you put up a factory
here in Germany to manufacture your phonographs and graumphoneB , etc.
it would be an immense suocess.
Please take this advice for what it is worth.
How are you getting along with the new battery ? I am hard
at work making the new speoial tools and apparatus for the new plate
and expect to be through within 4-6 weeks. When will you send me the
tube-filling machine ?
I have been in Paris a couple of weeks ago and called on
Messrs. Morgan, Harjes & Oo. at Mr. Waddington»s request. They are very
enthusiastic about starting to manufacture your battery in prance. I
told them to write to you and get your advice on the ipatta r.
I would be willing to lend them all the assistance I can, to
get them starting in the right way for manufacturing your battery.
Hoping that you enjoy good health, and trusting to hear from
you soon, I am with best wishes
Snclo.
Elnschreiben - Registered.
[ENCLOSURE]
THE
GRAMOPHONE AND TYPEWRITER
LIMITED.
iBii'cctarg.
Edmund Trevor Lloyd Williams, Chairman.
Joseph Berliner. Theodore Birnuau.v.
Ernest de la Rue. Romer Williams.
Edgar Storey.
REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS to be presented to the Shareholders
at the Sixth Annual General Meeting to be held at the Registered
Offices of the Company, si, City Road, London, E.C., on Monday,
the 15th day of October, 1906, at 2.30 o'clock in the. afternoon.
The Directors submit to the Shareholders the Sixth Annual Report and
Statement of Accounts for the year ended 30th June, 1906.
£ a. d.
The result of the trading as shown by the Balance
Sheet herewith is a credit balance of . 212,236 17 6
Add Amount brought forward from last Report ... 445,296 16 3
Making a total of . .. ... .£657,533
FROM WHICH HAS BEEN DEDUCTED THE FOLLOWING—
Income Tax Schedule " D "
Directors’ Remuneration for Year
ended 30th June, 1906 .
Matrix Account — Amount written off
in addition to Annual Instalment
Bonus of 10 per cent., less Income
Tax, paid on Ordinary Shares for
Year ended 30th June, 1905
Interim Quarterly Dividends on
Preference Shares at 5 per cent,
per annum, less Income Tax, to
30th June, 1906 .
Interim Quarterly Dividends on
Ordinary Shares at 10 per cent,
per annum, less Income Tax, to
30th June, 1906 .
£ s. d
9,649 1 1 . 3
2,500 o o
10,959 14 4
47,499 18 9
4.749 6 7
47,498 9 1
13
9
- 122,857 o o
Leaving at the credit of Profit and - * -
Loss Account . £534.676 13 9
£ l d.
Out of this balance of ... ... ... ... ... 534,676 13 9
It is now proposed to pay a Bonus of 10 per cent., less
Income Tax, on the Ordinary Shares, which will
absorb... ... ... ... ... ... ... 47,500 o o
Leaving to be carried forward to next year . £487,176 13 9
The Meeting will be asked to authorise the payment of Interim Dividends
on the Ordinary Shares at the rate of 15 per cent, per annum, less Income
Tax, by quarterly payments, for the year ending 30th June, 1907.
Depreciation, at adequate rates, has been written off the Warehouse,
Machinery and Plant, Warehouse Furniture, Fixtures and Fittings.
The Machinery and Plant standing in the last Balance Sheet at
£3,876 131. 4 d. has been reduced to £970 81. 2d., partly by Depreciation,
but chiefly in respect of Typewriting Machinery and Plant sold during the
The Matrix Account under the system hitherto adopted of writing
down the same should now stand at £40,959 141. t\.d. Your Directors have,
however, decided to write off an additional amount of £10,959 14?. 41/., as
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shown in the Appropriation of Profits, leaving the Matrix Account at £30,000,
which, although deemed to be a conservative estimate of the value of the
Asset, your Directors consider a large enough figure for the purposes of the
Balance Sheet.
For your information we beg to append Statement of Net Assets (irre¬
spective of Patents, Trade Marks, and Goodwill) of the Company, and of the
Foreign Companies and Branches owned by the Company, as at 30th June,
9 £ s. d.
Buildings . 42,045 9 o
Machinery and Plant . 23,823 16 9
Furniture, Fittings and Fixtures ... ... ... 171253 o 1
Stock-in-Trade . 163,796 18 7
Debtors . 156,882 7 1
Matrix Account . 30,000 o o
Rents and Insurances paid in advance . 4,650 o 1
£ash . 138,791 4 7
Investments . . 172,928 11 4
Leaving Net Assets . . £646,681 5 8
Our Investments in first class Securities, as shown in last year's Report
and which remain unchanged, amount to . £ 100,000 o o
During the year we have invested as shewn below : — -
£5,000 Hong Kong 3J per cent. Inscribed
Stock .
£5,°°° Japanese 4^ per cent. 1st Series
Bonds . ,,,
.£5,000 Canada Northern 4 per cent.
Debenture Bonds .
.£7,130 Canadian Pacific 4 per cent.
Preference Stock .
£2,000 Great Central Railway 2nd
Debentures .
£6,940 Buenos Ayres Southern 4 per
cent. Debenture Stock .
£7,500 Mersey Dock and Harbour
Board 3^ percent. Debentures
£3,500 Melbourne Metropolitan Board
of Works 4 per cent. Debentures ...
£3,800 Grand Trunk Western 4 per
cent. Gold Bonds
£820 is. 4 d. Consols .
ir Directors have pleasure
in reporting that such demand c
Sales for the three months July, August and September, 1906, being materially
in excess of the corresponding months of last year. S Y
The retiring Directors are Mr. Ernest de la Rue and Mr. Romer Williams,
who offer themselves for re-election. ’
_ . Mfessrs- Cooperand Cooper, the Auditors, retire, and offer themselves for
, City Road, E.C.,
1st October , 1906.
By order of the Board.
WALTER H. COOPER,
Secretary.
[ENCLOSURE]
■frfK
GRAMOPHONE & TYPEWRITER
IiIMITBD.
Report and Accounts, 30th June,
1906.
"IVT OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that
A ' tlie Seventh Ordinary General
Meeting of the Shareholders will be
held at the Registered Offices, 21, CITY
Road, Finsbury Square, London, E.C.,
at 2.30 p.m>, on Monday, the 15th
day of October, 1906, to receive the
Directors’ Report and Statement of
Accounts, to appoint Directors and
Auditors, and to transact any other
ordinary business.
By Order of the Board.
\V. H. COOPER,
Secretary.
21, City Road, E.C.,
6th October, 1906
graph. One man present stated, that he had heard
one of these instruments in the yearl886, orl887.
The statement of this party provoked a storm
of argument, which became very acrimonious, most
of those in the discussion maintaining that the
phonograph could not\have been heard at the time
stated, as the article in dispute has not been
in existence for more than 12 or 14 years at the
most. In the enclosed stamped envelope I would be
very grateful if you would let us know whether or
not it would have been possible to have heard a
phonograph in either of the years above mentioned.
Thanking you-Jin advance for the favor of a
reply, I remain,
Hespectfully yours,
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ORANGE, N. J.
EDISON PHDNDERAPHS & RECORDS.
10 Fifth Avenue, New York
IE INDIVID, UAL A
Mr. Thomas- A. Edison,
Laboratory.
Dear Sir:
There is evidently quite a rivalry between the talking
machine dealers of Ft. Myers, Fla., as is Ishovm by the
■advertisements that are running in the lodal papers. This
competition is quitei common in many cities' and towns and
it is perhaps the most important thing to consider in
deciding whether- or not we shall: eventually advertise
in weekly .papers. As soon as we start to do it, where
there is but one dealer in a town, we shall be asked to
print his name in connection with our advertisement and
he will never again do any advertising at his own expense.
If, for instance, we should advertise for the benefit
of our local Dealer in Ft. Myers, he would expect us to
do it always and would be very much disgruntled should
we refuse to continue. However, we will, in the near
future, tabulate the cities and towns where we have
dealers and determine what it will cost to have a
fairly adequate newspaper campaign in them, letting you and
Mr. Gilmore determine whether you want to spend the1
extra money for the purpose. I would not bother you with
these letters, did you not seem to be showing considerable
interest in the advertising end of our work.
Very truly yours,
Manager Advertising Department .
(JSftomLpCiEdiAorv,
NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH CD.
ORANGE, N. J.
EDISON PHONOGRAPHS & RECORDS.
10 Fifth Avenue, New York
Deo. 16, 1907
Mr. William A. Spencer,
Secretary Middlesex County,
Board of Taxation,
110 Smith St., •
Perth Amhoy, 1T.J.
Dear Sir:
for tSesaon a 1,111 '^inst Thomas A. Edison
ss-A'SS 1; c„
Sot to Ed?sonU q?nrVi\e* thiB COmp™y iB responsible SSd
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s endian aS^T^ *” siEnu’- lf necessary toMT^out ^
and we w?frhaavr?tn'eSc0S^dfinrWe ff^fMf^r
not see, however, that we should be called upon ?o do it
any more than you would yourself, had the tax bill bv some
mischance been made out in your Aame. y
Very truly yours,.
NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH CO.,
Advertising Department’
Manager . jj
NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH CD.
ORANGE, N. J.
EDISON PHONOGRAPHS & RECORDS.
10 Fifth Avenue, New York
THE INDIVIDUAL (ANO MENTION THESE INITIALS.
L. 0. K. _
Dec. 21,
1907
Mr. Thomas' A. Edison,
Laboratory.
Dear Sir:
Our advertisement will appear in January Weekly publications
and February Monthly Magazines as per the list below. This only
differs from our regular schedule in running single pages
and in dropping Harper's, Century and Scribner's, to y/hich
Mr.- Edison objected as being too high class for Phonograph advertis
ing.
Ainslee's
American Magazine
Argosy
As so . Sunday Magazine s
Collier's
Cosmopolitan
Everybody's
Ladies' u-ome Journal
Ladies World
Metropolitan
Kunsey's
National
Pacific
Puck
Red Book
Review of Reviews
Sat. Evening Post
Woman's Home Companion
World To-Day
Youth's Companion
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1 page
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1/2 p.
1 page
1 page
1/4 Pagi
1/4 pagi
1 page
1 page
1 page
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405,00
720.00
362.88
315.00
153.00
72.25
47-. 25
212.50
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354.00
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Very truly yours,
NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH CO.,
Advertising Department,
252.00
300 .00
500.00
1000 .00
200.00
500.00
225.00
900 .00
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*©£ EDISON PHONOGRAPH
Makes home the most entertaining spot on earth. You can give a
dance with an Edison Phonograph, supply music at a reception,
accompany a singer, entertain the children, break the ice at a party,
•while away pleasantly a few hours -when you are alone.
Put it to the test. Go to the nearest Edison store and hear the
new model with the big horn. Let the dealer play for you some of
the NEW FEBRUARY RECORDS. (Out January 25th.)
If you already own an Edison remember that to get the fullest
enjoyment out of it you must keep up with the new records.
Ask your dealer or write to us for the new catalogue of Edison
Phonographs, The Fiiokocham, describing each Record in
detail ; the Suitlemental Catalogue, listing the new February
Records, and the Complete Catalogue, listing all Edison Records
now in existence. Records in all foreign languages.
NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH COMPANY, Uks.lde Av„ Or«ng«, N. J. I
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1907. Phonograph - Edison Phonograph Works
(D-07-32)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the
business of the Edison Phonograph Works. Among the items for 1907 are
memoranda by Peter Weber, superintendent of the Edison Phonograph Works,
regarding specifications for the assembling of machines and cabinets;
correspondence concerning stock transactions; and a letter from the Edison
Portland Cement Co. pertaining to shipments of cement.
Approximately 40 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected consist primarily of letters regarding board meetings and
Edison Phonograph Works bonds.
March 7, 1907.
Eranois Eitoh, Esq. ,
42 Broadway,
Hew York.
Dear Sir:
I beg to advise you that I have carefully considered
your proposition to purohaBe the Edison Phonograph Works' stock
standing in the name of the International Graphophone Co., sub¬
mitted to my representative, Mr. W. E. Gilmore, and that I have
concluded not to aooept your proposition, and I hereby withdraw
all offers made by me to purchase this stook.
I return you herewith the report submitted by yourself;
copy of the report to the Bhare-holders of the Edison-Bell
Consolidated Phonograph Co., ltd., for the year ending June 30,
1905; also similar report to the shareholders for the year ending
June 30, 1906; and the four weekly reports of the Edison-Bell
Consolidated Phonograph Co., ltd., for the weeks ending January
5th, 12th, 19th and 26th.
Yours very truly,
TRe Edison Portland Cement (o.
^4HVffnofr(v Ccf^0yt«
Telegraph, Freight^n^p^g^FStation, NEW VILLAGE, N. J.
ANS.
1 MAIM OFFICE
AdSf&graW^RTSVILLE, N. J.
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Mar. 12, 1907.
* yUW. X Gilmore, Gen. Mgr.,1
Idison Phonograph Works
Orange, N. J.
My dear Gilmore:
X am in receipt of yours 11th, and as I wrote
you yesterday, I find that the last shipments were made you in
December, these shipments applying on contract placed with us
last September for 12,750 barrels at $1.65, the December shipments
filling the balance of the contract. We are prepared now to take
your order for your requirements for this coming year, and would
suggest that you do not delay too long in placing it, as the
market is firm at present, we having today taken quite a large
order at $1.50. •
Relative to the price of $1.65, would state that at the
time the order was placed last year this was the prevailing
market price, and as low as we were selling anyone at that time;
in fact, ww sold quite a little cement at $1.70 and $1.75.
Naturally we will take as good care of you as possible, but as
already suggested, I think it would be wise for you to place
your order, certainly in the next week or so.
Yours very truly,
p
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fjLcrt"- ~ "
Hay 31, 1907.
Mr. Ttlrd:
Use Kiiulsuidu M/ic hint, nhic'd la to bo enuJpod nitii 7&
tiireud gvo& aor&w -sad m« recorder and raprod'aoor Is to "bo
iaiuv.n *ii
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2Jia Draxti'Ctj Hoosa ahuuid got to ttofi iuaa<>diEvte3Lj‘ on
Ui a iw tin Inga rstocsaary i‘or the naw parts of tUin aatfain®.
B.Ii. Alteon. ^
Copy to Mo ears . -Hoore^Schof f l<gMo flforn^Twi vrintelt-Surttntl- A'
jresnCR Prnlr lo-^»X<jm<m-Xiaiia-Kltoiidll .
Please -mal e -arrangements at once t; assemble
1500 Gem Machines per wee!
t’n00 Standard Machines pe; week,'
:.~50 He is Machines per week
250 Hh’.nmph Machines per week.
• Of cour&eF-ft is necessary that the liopartnants
iam out a sw ?fioien : number of ports to enable the Assembl. ng
department to put together this number of machines.
!Che Cabinet departments must increase the production
o:-. cabinets as follows:
Standards 5000 per
Homes 250C^pi
Copy to all Foremen
\ l\JC_n*- >T_ — - —-■■■
^ Up. July 10, 1007.
C — ! Hoi-| r^enx, . - , '*
Shop order has just been issued for new horn-cranes
and bracke’.ts. The Gem horn-crane will be of one type made out
of two pieces, and socket for crane is formed in the body of the
casting the same as heretofore with the exception that the crane
is made of l/4" stock instead of 3/l6" ot ock, and therefore the
hole . should be for 1/4" rod instead of z/l6". Plugs must be
provided for /those holes so that there will bo no chance for the
holes being drilled too small, or too large for the crane.
The crane for the Standard a.id Home are identical with
the except? on that the Home crane is slightly longer than the
Standard, and the bracket which is fastened t.- the bottom of the
. is so is the same orl both machines. The crane and bracket for
the Triumph, Alva, iueal are identical with the one#Which we
have some in stock.
The crane brackets have to be attached, on all cabinets — .
in the Cabinet Trimming Department before the cabinetB are
delivered to the Testing Room.
P- .Weber,
Qensraj. .SuporiirtenAent .. .
X enclose herewith a copy of the letter to Messrs. Eitoh
& Vroom as dictated hy Mr. McCarter. Mr. Vroom called on the tele¬
phone this morning in reference to the matter and I told him that
a letter had been written and would he received hy him this after¬
noon.
I return also the copies of the correspondence which you
left with me.
Enclosures,
[ENCLOSURE]
Newark, N.J., Aug. 10, 1907. j
Messrs. Fitch & Vroora, '
42 Broadway, New York City.
Gentlemen
Referring to the negotiations had the other day with you by
Mr. Byer on behalf of Mr. Edison, concerning the 1440 shares of stock in j
the Edison Phonograph Works, I am authorized by Mr. Byer to say to you j
that Mr. Edison is willing to accept your offer to purchase this stock for j
the sura of $170,000., payable in the following manner: When Mr. Byer j
and I are convinced that a good title can be secured for this stock, and j
delivery raade of the certificates, $25,000. in cash will be then paid,
and twelve notes aggregating $145,000., the balance, drawn or endorsed by J
Mr. Edison, will likewise be delivered, payable one month apart, with in¬
terest at five per cent. These notes and the stock to be deposited in
escrow with a satisfactory Trust Co., and the stock to be delivered when
the notes are finally paid. This purchase of course involves not only the
discontinuance of all litigation pending in reference to this stock,
either in New Jersey or elsewhere, but also releases from the Edison
United Phonograph Co. and the International Phonograph Co., to Mr. Edison, !
the works, and all his interest, together with a public retraction of the: i
charges that accompanied the recent application for a mandamus to inspect
the books of the Works, withdrawing the charges there made against Mr.
Edison. Kindly notify me if this is satisfactory, and Mr. Byer and I will
at once take up with you the details of bringing this to a close.
Yours very truly,
[ENCLOSURE]
FRANCIS FITCH,
.COUNSELOR AT LAVA
‘ 42 BROADWAY,
HEW YORK.
Robert H. McCarter, Esq.,
August 14th, 1907.
Prudential Building,
Newark, N.J.
Dear Sir:
In answer to your favor of August 10th., relating to 1440 shares
of Edison Phonograph Works Stock, I beg to correct a statement in your
letter. In my conversation with Mr. Dyer I did not make an offer to ac¬
cept $170000. for the stock. Mr. Dyer made no offer to purchase for his
principal nor I to sell. It was suggested that a purchase and sale would
be a desirable way to end present litigation and prevent future litiga¬
tion. Mr. Dyer desired me to inform him at what price I thought the stock
could be purchased. I said that Mr. Edison (as I understand it) had
formerly made two orfers: one of $144000. and one of $153000., and in a
letter to me had withdrawn all offers. I stated to Mr. Dyer that from my
knowledge of the legal title to the stock, and the method by which title
could be transferred, it would now be necessary to pay some sums, which
even if my principals would now accppt $153000. would require a total of
$170000. I made no offer to sell for such sum; but was and am still
willing to present such proposition to a majority of the bondholders who
have a moral if not a legal interest in determining a sale, of the Works
stock.
The terms of the payment of the $170000. suggested in your letter
reduces the proposed transaction to a conditional sale. I do not think
it is desirable to submit to such a proposition and from my knowledge of
the situation it would be difficult if not impossible to carry through any
[ENCLOSURE]
sale for terms other than cash.
The sale of the stock by the International Graphophone: Co. would
legally operate as a release of any possible claims the company might have
against the Works Co.
The dismissal of the action for mandamus, and a dismissal of
the: present suit in equity upon such terms and for such reasons as might
be embodied in the order to be agreed upon, would be complete and suf¬
ficient retraction of any charges to which Mr. Edison objects. Inasmuch
as the only charges made are thpse made in the. Bill in the suit, aixl re¬
peated in the petition for mandamus, and such charges are made by the
a
corporation, a dismissal for want of proof would beA retraction.
The principal difficulty in carrying out the proposition sug¬
gested in your letter of the 10th., Is the terms of payment. Whatever
price is agreed upon, I am quite sure it would require cash to obtain the
consent of some interests, if not all, whose agreement v/ill be legally
necessary.
I believe I can satisfy you of our ability to give title. I am
willing to go to Newark or Orange and consult with you and Mr. Dyer if
you wish.
Very truly yours,
Francis Fitch
Fitch & Vroom.
[ENCLOSURE]
howark, N* .J., August 19th, 1907.
Messrs. Fitch & Vroom,
HW. Broadway,
Howl'd rk City.
Gentlemen
Y our lettor of the 14th instant was received by Mr. McCarter
before ho started. oft hin vacation. He left instructions that we reply
as follows;** he is auro that the question of cash, or time will moke
no material difference to his client and that if the other conditions
of his letter of the 10th instant are carried out the full sum of
One Hundred and Seventy Thousand ($170,000) Dollars will be paid for
the stock in cash. Mr. Edison is, however, insistent that some pub¬
lic withdrawal of the animadversions upon his character which appeared
in the public p »ss at ■ftie time of the commencement of the mandamus
proceedings be made. Mr. McCarter feels sure ithis detail can be
arranged between you and him. |
Kindly let ub know if on Hr. McCarter’s return (which will
be in about two weeks) the plan will be carried out.
Yours truly,
. . October 1,1907 .
TO AIL FOREMAN:
V/e must immediately increase our production of
phonographs to the full schedule , which consists of;
1500 Gems
5000 'Standards
2500 Homes
300 Triumphs
Just as soon as we get up to 5000 Standards
machines we have to increase this number to 5500. Every
foreman must make effort immediately to bring up the output
of parts which are manufactured in his department to the above
s chedule .
P. V/E3ER.
1907. Radio (D-07-33)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the
technical and commercial development of wireless telegraphy or radio. Among
the items for 1907 are letters concerning the finances of the Marconi Wireless
Telegraph Co. of America and Edison's assessment of, and investment in, that
company.
Approximately 40 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected consist of routine correspondence about Marconi company
notes, letters of inquiry, and items that duplicate information in selected
material.
ThomaB A, Edison, Esq. ,
Llewellyn Park,
Orange, H.J.
Dear Sir:
On the first of next month the fourth note, $4,800. given
to you hy my Company for patents, &c. , will fall due. All the
prior notes have been duly met.
Owing to the delay in the opening of trans- Atlantic com¬
munication for the public, which I may tell you on Hr. Marconi's
authority, is an assured fact in. the near future, we have not been
able to make such financial arrangements as we v/ould otherwise have
been in a position to make, and in consequence the payment of the
note, due Hovember 1st, would be very inconvenient to us.
Looking to the very friendly' relation* which have hither¬
to prevailed between your goodself mid this Company, and to the
fact thtit all your notes have been heretofore promptly paid by this
Company, I am emboldened to ask you If you will do us the great
favor of extending the time for the payment of this note for say,
six months, or until Hay 1st, 1908./ If you will do us this favor.
T.A.JS, -2-
I will Bend you a new note for the amount, bearing intereet at the
uaual rate. X am loath to ash this favor, but no doubt you will
understand, and I hope appreciate the circumstances and my reason
for ashing it from you.
Yours very truly,
{fLo'l**
My dear Mr. Edison:
X am in receipt of your letter of yesterday's date, and
on behalf of the Company thank you very much for your compliance
with my request, viz: to renew your note for six months. Kindly
let me know whether you wish to have this in one note or in four,
as it is at the present time*
I think there is no question hut that Mr# Marconi will
"do the trick" this time. If I hear anything, I shall advise you
before the news goes out to the general public#
You will be sorry to hear that Lady Kelvin has been dan¬
gerously ill, and even now, iB not out of danger# She had a par¬
alytic stroke about a fortnight ago, and afterwards some heart j
trouble. A cable I received the other day said that she waB still I
very ill, but that they had hopeB#
October 11th, 1907
Thomas A. Edison Esq., '
“ Menlo Park *
Llewellyn Park, Orange Mountains. New-Jersey.
My dear Sir:-
English peolple across seas would greatly
appreciate message from you occasion inauguration Trans-
Atlantic Marconigrams .
Would you be kind enough mail me greeting from New
World to Old which Marconi will transmit to “ The London
Morning Leader “ whose New-York correspondent I am.
Your s f ai thf ul ly .
c/o Anglo-American Telegraph Go.
#68 Broad Street. New-York.
Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
The Laboratory,
Orange, H.J.
Dear Sir:
With further reference to the correspondence heretofore
had between us in the early part of this month, t have now the
pleasure of enclosing to you a note for $4,800, and interest, due
hay 1st, 1908, and Shall feel very much obliged if you will, in ex¬
change therefor, send me the notes which fall due November let.
Again thanking you for the favor of renewing these notes.
We are
Tours very truly,
MARCOHI WIRELESS
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1907. Reiff, Josiah C. (D-07-34)
This folder contains correspondence by Josiah C. Reiff, a longtime
Edison associate who was involved in protracted litigation ( George Harrington,
Josiah C. Reiff, and Thomas A. Edison v. Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Co.
et al.) arising from Edison's telegraph work during the 1870s.
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litigation but do not involve Edison directly.
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1907. West Orange Laboratory (D-07-35)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the
operation of the West Orange laboratory. Included are inquiries regarding real
estate adjoining the laboratory, correspondence concerning supplies and
instruments, a receipt for taxes paid by the Ott Manufacturing Co., and several
memoranda in Edison's hand containing instructions and listing supplies
needed for the laboratory.
Approximately 30 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected include statements, circulars, and routine correspondence
regarding supplies, along with documents that duplicate information in selected
material.
Mr. Pat Brady:
Mar. 8, 1907.
In looking through the orders signed hy
Hueske, is care exercised to see if any of the materials called
for are in stock here or at the laboratory, before the issuing
of orders to outside people? It seems to me that we might be
able to fill a great many of these orders. You had better see
me about this.
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My dear Mr. Edison:
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The owners of the loe Factory fed^. 1;hat under "t^^ci^cum-
the plant and property on
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Lakeside Avenue. I learn that you or some of the companies in which
you are interested have purchased considerable property on't)iat block:
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facing on Vatchung Avenue aixa it has occurred, to me that ouriproper-i
ty might he similarly disposed of^**”^ *'****
We hope to realize about $60,000. for the whole property
hut, of course, this is subject to such modification as closer in¬
vestigation might render reasonable. If the building and machinery
could be used for the purpose intended, we feel that some such price
for that and the extensive strip of land would be moderate. If,
however, only the land and buildings are wanted, I presume we could
reduce the price some $10,000. for the machinery. .1 have one or two
inquiries which may or may not have emanated from some of your in¬
terests, but I naturally turn to you for a definite consideration
of the situation.
I shall highly appreciate the favor of an answr at your
earliest convenience.
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I am in receipt of your cablegram reading:
" ijuote by cable thouaand pounds crystallized caustic barium must
"have no alumina", in reply to which I have cabled you: "fifty
marks", by which you will have understood that I offered you:
. 1000 lbs BARIUM HYDRATE, pure crystals, absolutely free from
Alumina, at Mk.50.oo per 100 kilos, f.o.b. Hamburg,
casks free, usual terns. I shall be pleased to be favoured with
your order.
Referring to my delivery of 50 lbs TUNGSTIC ACID pure
and 50 lbs of same chemically -pure . I should also like to hear
from you when you are in the market again. You are no doubt
aware that in the meantime prices for all Tungstates have con¬
siderably advanced.
Awaiting your further news,
I remain, dear Sir,
Yours faithfully,
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.TO RALPH ARBOGAST?]
NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH CO.
17225,
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Orange, N.J,
My dear Mr.. Edison:
I -wonder if you have given any consideration to the pro¬
position made by me for the purchase of the Ice factory. I sent
you a map,' etc, as you requested and shall be very glad to hear
from you at your early convenience. The property is under lease
for a few months but can be delivered practically at any time.
BRANCHES
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BYRON & HALL ^ '
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POST OFFICE BOX No. 2160
BRAZILIAN DEPARTMENT. NOV. 21s t. 1907
Mr. Thos. A.ISdison,
Orange,N. J.
Dear Sirs- ,
In response to the re.quest contained In yours of
the 18th. inst. we give you herein a memorandum of the
subject treated in our letter of August 26th. which seems
to have missed its destination.
We have taken up the sale of Carbons and Eortz
commercially used for setting into Diamond Brills or into
tools for dressing emery wheels or for various mechanical
and industrial purposes.
If you use this class of mineral in any of your
enterprises v;e shall be pleased to submit for your inspection
such as you $ay desire to see.
McKesson ^robbins,
91 Fulton Street
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Edison Laboratories,
Orange, IT. <
Gentlemen: -
We understand that^Wolf ram Metal is used to some extent in
the make-up of incandescent lamps. We are importers of the chemically
pure article, 97-99^, bringing it in on ordero of 100 lb. lots and more.
We quote to-day at $1.25 per lb., and should be very pleased to have
your business if you are consumers. We can also import the cheaper
grades and will bo glad to procure you estimates on application.
Awaiting your favors, we "emain.
Yours very truly,
McKesson Je Robbins,
J.H.G.
Mr. Thos. A. Edison,
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We have your favor of the 27th ult. and are sending you hy same
mail a sajnple of Wolfram Metal. We will he glad to know the result of
your examination and will thank you to favor us with a report of same.
We also hope that if you can use the article you will hand us the
business.
Yours very truly,
McKesson & Robbins,
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DOCUMENT FILE SERIES
1908
1908. Automobile (D-08-01)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the design and
operation of automobiles and the use of storage batteries in electric vehicles. Among the items for
1908 are letters from William G. Bee of the Edison Storage Battery Co., Ralph H. Beach of General
Electric, and John M. Lansden, Jr. of the Lansden Co. Included are items pertaining to Edison's
purchase of the Lansden Co., as well as an account of past relations with Lansden and an audit of
the company's finances. Documents dealing with Edison's personal automobiles include
correspondence with Cryder & Co., importer of Edison's Mors car, and letters concerning an alleged
speeding violation by Edison.
1908. Battery - Primary (D-08-02)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the primary batteries
produced by the Edison Manufacturing Co. Among the items for 1908 are letters and memoranda
concerning the Battery Supplies Co. of Newark, which was acquired by the Edison Manufacturing
Co. in that year. Also included are items pertaining to advertising, expenses, and relations with the
Western Electric Co. of Chicago. Most of the selected letters are by Frank L. Dyer, who succeeded
William E. Gilmore as vice president of the Edison Manufacturing Co. in July 1 908.
1908. Battery - Storage - General (D-08-03)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the commercial and
technical development of Edison's alkaline storage battery. Among the items for 1908 are reports
by William G. Bee, manager of sales, on the performance of cells, letters and memoranda
concerning the financial health and management of the Edison Storage Battery Co., and a list of
company stockholders. Also included are letters requesting information about the batteries, samples
of which have been selected.
1908. Battery - Storage - Foreign (D-08-04)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the patenting,
manufacture, and sale of Edison storage batteries in countries other than the United States. Most
of the documents concern relations among Edison, Sigmund Bergmann, and Bergmann's Deutsche
Edison-Accumulatoren-Co. Included are items pertaining to supplies and equipment, Edison's newly
developed cells, and European sales rights.
1908. Battery - Storage - Metals (D-08-05)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to Edison's interest in
obtaining metals such as bismuth, cobalt, and lithium for possible use in his alkaline storage battery.
The correspondents include W. R. Grace & Co., Edwin V. Machette, E. Schaaf-Regelman, Slipp-
Butler Co., and other dealers in ores and minerals. There are also letters from individuals possessing
information about sources and prices of bismuth.
1908. Cement (D-08-06)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the business of the
Edison Portland Cement Co. and the manufacture and composition of cement. Many of the items
are letters exchanged by Walter S. Mallory, vice president of the Edison Portland Cement Co., and
Frank L. Dyer, president of the National Phonograph Co. Included are letters and memoranda
pertaining to the cement company's bid to supply cement for the construction of the Panama Canal.
There are also items concerning an excursion to the cement plant at New Village, New Jersey, to
which Edison invited "important men connected with the building industry."
1908. Cement House (D-08-07)
This folder contains correspondence relating to the widely publicized development of Edison's
poured concrete house. Much of the material consists of unsolicited inquiries regarding the unique
nature, quick construction, and low cost of the projected house. Also included is correspondence
concerning designs and waterproof paints for the house, as well as requests to view Edison's one-
quarter scale model. In addition, there are letters by the manufacturer and philanthropist, Henry
Phipps, and by Joseph Fels, the manufacturer of Fels-Naptha soap; and letters and circulars
concerning the business of the North Jersey Paint Co., an Edison company organized in 1908 to
manufacture waterproof paints for cement surfaces. Many of the unsolicited letters contain Edison
marginalia, usually indicating that a circular be sent in response. Copies of two such circulars, one
typewritten and the other printed, can be found in this folder.
1908. Edison, T.A. - General (D-08-08)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to a variety of subjects.
Included are documents that deal with more than one subject or that do not fall under the main
subject categories in the Document File. Among the items for 1908 are letters and memoranda
pertaining to Edison's health, his opinion on musical copyrights, and his friendship with Andrew
Carnegie. Also included are letters from longtime Edison associates Charles Batchelor, William E.
Gilmore, Charles T. Hughes, Samuel Insull, Francis Jehl, Edward H. Johnson, Thomas C. Martin,
and Francis R. Upton.
1908. Edison, T.A. - Articles (D-08-09)
This folder contains correspondence requesting Edison to write articles, correspondence
relating to articles about Edison or his inventions, and letters from journalists seeking to interview
Edison or solicit his statements for publication. Among the documents for 1908 are letters from
Theodore Dreiser at The Delineator and a typescript of an Edison interview prepared for the New
York World. Also included are letters and memoranda regarding the projected biography of Edison
by Frank L. Dyer and Thomas C. Martin and the hiring of William H. Meadowcroft as Dyer's assistant.
1908. Edison, T.A. - Book and Journal Orders
(D-08-10) [not selected]
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the ordering of books
and journals. Included are renewals for Edison's journal subscriptions, as well as book and magazine
orders for members of his family.
1908. Edison, T.A. - Clubs and Societies (D-08-11)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to Edison's membership
and activities in social clubs and professional societies. Among the documents for 1908 are items
pertaining to Edison's support for the Republican party and the local National Guard unit. There are
also letters concerning the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Young Men's Christian
Association of the Oranges, and numerous other professional societies, philanthropic organizations,
automobile clubs, and booster clubs. Some of the items contain Edison marginalia.
1908. Edison, T.A. - Employment - General (D-08-12)
This folder contains correspondence from or about employees and prospective employees.
There are also letters soliciting Edison's opinion regarding former employees seeking positions
elsewhere. Most of the correspondence consists of requests for employment at the West Orange
laboratory, some in answer to newspaper advertisements. Among the documents for 1908 are items
pertaining to liability insurance; the indebtedness of several employees; the funeral expenses for
John F. Randolph, Edison's secretary, who committed suicide; and the employment of a bodyguard
for Edison. Documents relating to the hiring of William H. Meadowcroft as an assistant to Frank L.
Dyer can be found in D-08-09 (Edison, T.A. - Articles).
1908. Edison, T.A. - Employment - Draftsman (D-08-13)
This folder contains correspondence from or about applicants for the position of chief
draftsman, as well as occasional Edison memoranda concerning the physiognomy of the applicants.
Most of the letters were written in response to newspaper advertisements.
1908. Edison, T.A. - Family (D-08-14)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to Edison's family. Among
the documents for 1908 are items pertaining to the finances of Thomas A. Edison, Jr., and William
Leslie Edison; the expenses incurred by other family members; the schooling of Charles Edison; and
the activities of Mina Miller Edison. Also included is an itinerary for the Edisons' trip to the Pacific
Northwest.
1908. Edison, T.A. - Financial (D-08-15)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to Edison's personal
investments and other financial interests. Included are letters from J. P. Morgan & Co. pertaining to
bond transactions and itemized trial balances and statements of account for the period 1 890-1 908.
1908. Edison, T.A. - Name Use (D-08-16) [not selected]
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the use of Edison's
name, whether authorized or unauthorized, for advertising, trademark, or other purposes. Some of
the items for 1908 pertain to individuals who named children after Edison and to concerns seeking
to market an Edison pen and an Edison vacuum cleaner. One item is a signed certificate in Spanish,
granting use of the name “Edison” to the Compania Edison Hispano Americana. There are also
letters regarding the unauthorized use of Edison's name by a concrete construction company, by the
publisher of an encyclopedia of electricity, and by the defunct Edison Polyform Co.
1908. Edison, T.A. - Real Estate (D-08-17)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the purchase, rental,
and sale of land and buildings. Included are letters concerning property in Menlo Park, Glen Ridge
and Orange, New Jersey; and in New York City and Iona Island, New York. Among the items for
1908 are a description of laboratory buildings rented for Charles L. Brasseur and an appraisal of
property and capital improvements at the storage battery plant in Glen Ridge, New Jersey.
1908. Edison, T.A. - Unsolicited Correspondence -
Advice - General (D-08-18)
This folder contains routine correspondence suggesting improvements in Edison's inventions,
asking him for advice on technical matters, or requesting his assistance in improving or promoting
inventions. Also included are unsolicited letters from inventors about their work.
1908. Edison, T.A. - Unsolicited Correspondence -
Advice - Aviation (D-08-19) [not selected]
This folder contains unsolicited correspondence relating to technological developments in
aviation and aerial navigation. Most of the letters were inspired by newspaper reports that Edison
was interested in those fields. Some of the items contain Edison marginalia refuting newspaper
accounts.
1908. Edison, T.A. - Unsolicited Correspondence - Autograph and
Photograph Requests (D-08-20) [not selected]
This folder contains routine correspondence requesting Edison's autograph or asking for his
photograph. Some of the items contain perfunctory Edison marginalia granting or refusing requests.
1908. Edison, T.A. - Unsolicited Correspondence -
Business (D-08-21)
This folder contains routine correspondence from individuals requesting agencies for
Edison's inventions or seeking to do business with him.
1908. Edison, T.A. - Unsolicited Correspondence -
Deafness (D-08-22)
This folder contains correspondence relating to Edison’s deafness and to devices for the
hearing impaired. Included are requests for Edison's opinion of existing hearing aids, as well as
inquiries concerning his plans to invent such a device.
1908. Edison, T.A. - Unsolicited Correspondence -
Foreign Language (D-08-23) [not selected]
This folder contains untranslated letters to Edison. Foreign-language documents
accompanied by translations or English-language summaries can be found in other "Edison, T.A. -
Unsolicited Correspondence" folders and in the appropriate subject folders.
1908. Edison, T.A. - Unsolicited Correspondence -
Personal (D-08-24)
This folder contains routine personal requests and fan mail. Included are letters asking
Edison for biographical and other personal information, educational advice, information on lightning
rods and x-rays, charitable contributions, loans, and other favors. Among the items for 1908 is a
marginal note by Edison regarding his boyhood readings at the Detroit public library.
1908. Edison, T.A. - Visitors (D-08-25) [not selected]
This folder contains routine letters of introduction and requests to visit Edison or tour his
West Orange laboratory. Substantive letters from individuals who visited the laboratory or company
shops on business can be found in the appropriate subject folders. Some of the items contain
perfunctory marginalia by Edison, granting or refusing requests.
1908. Edison Manufacturing Company (D-08-26) [not selected]
This folder contains correspondence and other documents pertaining to the business of the
Edison Manufacturing Co. Among the documents for 1908 are routine statements of account;
memoranda regarding prices, board meetings, and company officers; and correspondence
concerning the supply of phonoplex circuits. One letter regarding the phonoplex contains Edison
marginalia granting an outside company permission to make and supply some circuits. Other items
in the Document File relating to the Edison Manufacturing Co. can be found in D-08-02 (Battery -
Primary) and in D-08-32 (Motion Pictures).
1908. Exhibitions (D-08-27)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents concerning electrical and
industrial exhibitions. Among the items for 1908 are documents pertaining to historical films
produced by the Edison Manufacturing Co. for display at the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition.
Included also are documents relating to Edison's role as honorary president of the New York
Electrical Show, the recording of his introductory speech on an Edison Business Phonograph, and
its playback on the opening day of the Show.
1908. Fort Myers (D-08-28)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to Edison's home and
property at Fort Myers, Florida. Among the items for 1908 are letters from the chemist, Jonas W.
Aylsworth, who was convalescing in Fort Myers. Also included are documents regarding
arrangements for Edison's visit, upkeep expenses, dock construction, and the planting of an avenue
of royal palms.
1908. Glenmont (D-08-29) [not selected]
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the furnishing and
maintenance of Glenmont, Edison's home in Llewellyn Park. The items for 1908 include letters, bills,
receipts, and statements of account pertaining to landscaping, insurance, coal, water, and gas.
1908. Legal Department (D-08-30)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the activities of the
Legal Department, a centralized office for the consideration of legal matters involving the Edison
companies. Included are items that pertain to litigation or to the organization of companies, as well
as items that address general concerns of corporate structure and financial and legal responsibility.
Most of the documents for 1908 consist of letters and memoranda to and from Frank L. Dyer,
general counsel of the Legal Department, along with reports of proceedings sent to Edison. There
are letters concerning a forgery case, copyright legislation, the provisions of the Employer's Liability
Act, and the merits of incorporation in the state of New Jersey.
1908. Mining (D-08-31)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to mining and ore milling.
Among the documents for 1908 are items pertaining to relations with the Allis-Chalmers Co.; a
balance sheet for the defunct Edison Iron Concentrating Co. covering the period 1890-1901; and
letters enclosing ore samples or inquiring about Edison’s interest in ore milling, mines, and ores.
1908. Motion Pictures (0-08-32)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the production and
commercial development of motion picture films and the manufacturing of projectors. Included are
items pertaining to kinetoscope production schedules, film prices, film distribution, trademarks,
advertising, sales, and the activities of jobbers, dealers, and competitors. Among the documents for
1908 are letters relating to experimental work contracted to Daniel Higham and Charles L. Brasseur;
to hearings in Washington, D.C., regarding film tariffs and copyrights; and to the events leading to
the organization of the Motion Picture Patents Co. Also included are items about a proposed motion
picture with President Theodore Roosevelt as its subject. Among the correspondents are William
E. Gilmore, vice president and general manager of the Edison Manufacturing Co.; Frank L. Dyer of
the Legal Department, who succeeded Gilmore as vice president in July 1908; George F. Scull,
assistant to the vice president; Alex T. Moore, manager of the Kinetograph Department; John Pelzer
and Leonard W. McChesney, employees in the Kinetograph Department; Leonard C. McChesney,
manager of the Advertising Department; and James H. White, former managing director of the
Edison Manufacturing Co., Ltd. Related documents can be found in D-08-27 (Exhibitions).
1908. New Jersey Patent Company (D-08-33)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the New Jersey Patent
Co., a patent holding company for the National Phonograph Co. and other Edison concerns. Among
the items for 1908 are memoranda concerning foreign patents held by Edison, documents pertaining
to the company's investment in the Douglas Phonograph Co., and two receipts for payments made
to Walter H. Miller and Jonas W. Aylsworth for "sundries." Among the correspondents are Frank L.
Dyer, general counsel of the Legal Department, and Harry F. Miller, treasurer of the New Jersey
Patent Co.
1908. Patents (D-08-34)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to foreign and domestic
patent applications, patent litigation, and other patent matters. Among the items for 1908 are
documents concerning foreign storage battery and cement patents, patents on the use of montan
wax in phonograph cylinders, and the investigation of patents by experimenters other than Edison.
Most of the letters are to or from Frank L. Dyer, general counsel of the Legal Department and (after
July) president and general counsel of the National Phonograph Co.
1908. Pike Adding Machine Company (D-08-35)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the business of the
Pike Adding Machine Co., a company in which Edison owned stock and William E. Gilmore served
as vice president. Included are letters pertaining to the financial needs of the company.
1908. Phonograph - General (D-08-36)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the technical and
commercial development of phonographs. Among the items for 1908 are documents pertaining to
the development of Edison Amberol Records, to recordings made by Leo Tolstoy, to audits of the
various Edison companies, and to advertising done by the National Phonograph Co. through the firm
of Calkins & Holden. Also included are items regarding William E. Gilmore's financial interest in the
Essex Press of Newark, which he kept secret from Edison, and the events leading to Gilmore's
resignation as president and general manager of the National Phonograph Co. in July 1908. Among
the correspondents are Frank L. Dyer, general counsel and (after July) president of the National
Phonograph Co.; Leonard C. McChesney, manager of the Advertising Department; F. K. Dolbeer,
manager of sales; and the accounting firm of Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery.
1908. Phonograph - Edison Business Phonograph
Company (D-08-37)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the concerns of the
Edison Business Phonograph Co., which was established in 1908 as the successor to the
Commercial Department of the National Phonograph Co. Included are a certificate of incorporation,
a maintenance contract with Henry M. Seely of New York, and items pertaining to the sales and
directors of the company. Also included is a memorandum regarding the resignation of William E.
Gilmore as president and general manager of the Edison Business Phonograph Co., the promotion
of Carl H. Wilson to vice president and general manager, and the transfer of Gilmore's stock to his
successor, Frank L. Dyer.
1908. Phonograph - Edison Phonograph Works
(D-08-38)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the business of the
Edison Phonograph Works. Among the items for 1908 are letters and memoranda concerning stock
transactions and dividends, shop orders, and production schedules. Included are a series of
memoranda to shop foremen by Peter Weber, superintendent of the Edison Phonograph Works, and
a statement of monthly sales for the period November 1 906-May 1907. Among the correspondents
are William E. Gilmore, general manager; Carl H. Wilson, assistant general manager; and Frank L.
Dyer, general counsel.
1908. Radio (D-08-39) [not selected]
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the technical and
commercial development of wireless telegraphy or radio. The items for 1908 consist primarily of
routine correspondence with the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. of America regarding the renewal
of notes held by Edison. Several of the letters contain brief marginal notes by Edison indicating his
willingness to extend the notes. The company's annual report for the year ending January 31,1 908,
and the report of its yearly meeting held on April 20, 1908, are also included.
1908. Reiff, Josiah C. (D-08-40) [not selected]
This folder contains correspondence by Josiah C. Reiff, a longtime Edison associate who
was involved in protracted litigation (George Harrington, Josiah C. Reiff, and Thomas A. Edison v.
Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Co. et al .) arising from Edison's telegraph work during the 1870s.
Among the items for 1908 are requests for loans and other personal favors from Edison, along with
updates on the lack of progress in the litigation. Also included are numerous receipts from Reiff for
money advanced by Edison. Some of the letters contain marginal notes by Edison instructing his
secretary, Harry F . Miller, to send the money. One letter contains the following notation: "Reiff - you
have stuck me at a very bad period, I have raised the $934 which I send but I can assure you it
comes hard - E."
1908. Taft, William Howard (D-08-41)
This folder contains correspondence with William Howard Taft, Republican presidential
candidate, and his representatives. Included are items pertaining to Edison's campaign contributions,
voice recordings made of Taft by the National Phonograph Co., and a request by Taft for Edison's
autograph.
1908. Telephone (D-08-42)
This folder contains correspondence relating to the technical and commercial development
of telephones. Included are letters pertaining to Edison's work on telephones during the 1870s as
well as to his continued experiments with telephones as a railroad dispatching device.
1908. West Orange Laboratory (D-08-43)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the operation of the
West Orange laboratory. Included are items regarding drilling equipment and other instruments and
supplies. Also included are several memoranda in Edison’s hand containing instructions and listing
chemicals needed for the laboratory.
1908. Automobile (D-08-01)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the
design and operation of automobiles and the use of storage batteries in electric
vehicles. Among the items for 1908 are letters from William G. Bee of the
Edison Storage Battery Co., Ralph H. Beach of General Electric, and John M.
Lansden, Jr. of the Lansden Co. Included are items pertaining to Edison’s
purchase of the Lansden Co., as well as an account of past relations with
Lansden and an audit of the company's finances. Documents dealing with
Edison's personal automobiles include correspondence with Cryder & Co.,
importer of Edison's Mors car, and letters concerning an alleged speeding
violation by Edison.
Approximately 50 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected include correspondence with Cryder & Co. and others
regarding orders, bills, and automobile parts; documents pertaining to
automobile registration, automobiles and parts available for sale, and the
outfitting of Edison's garage; as well as documents that duplicate information
in selected material.
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The Auto Transit Co. on the 16th December last was aljout
to go into the hands of a Receiver, owing to the enormous expense of
upkeep on the busses which were in service. Some of the Stockholders '
got together and turned their stock over to Mr. Peter J. Hughes, thev
gentleman who originally got the franchise in the city of Philadelphia
for 299 years i Mr. Hughes has been a politician all his life, and
is a very bright, able man. ve agreed to take hold of it provided
he could have it absolutely his own way in handling the Company. They
voted him that right and he immediately demanded the resignation of
' :tii.e!v President and General manager. He then went to work and out
down the wages of both motormen and conductors and at the same time
cut down the thieving, of which there was a great deal, as for the
first month he caiight fifteen conductors who were stealing. To show
how much this was being done, in the last two months with only sixteen
busses the receipts have been as great as they were in the early fall
with eighteen and twenty busses, with the winter weather against them.
He also cut down the length of run, as by going around the City Hall,
which was all torn up, there was great wear and tear on the equipment.
He then found he could not make money at a five cent fare and got the
Business Mens Association to vote that he could divide the run into
a North and South zone, collecting five cents for each zone, as by
actual calculation 80^ of the passengers stopped at the City Hall,
the terminal of each zone, and the other 2o^ were tourists or
sight-seers who could afford tompay the ten cents. In addition to that
he figured that the busses he now has are a great deal too heavy for
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the work which was required of them, as they weigh 11500 pounds and
carry 34 people. He is now figuring on buying 25 busses with Edison
battery, to carry from 25 to 30 persons, and weighing in the neighbor¬
hood of 5000 pounds. As soon as the new busses are received he
intends to send the old busses to Atlantic City, where they cafi
operate seven or eight months in the year.
He also has an option on the right to put busses in the
City of Washington to operate to and from the Union ‘Stat ion.
I do not think there is any doubt but what the main
trouble has been that the busses which the Auto Transit Co. now o wn
were entirely too heavy and too complicated, as the day I was there
they had in the neighborhood of 75 people in their garage and repair
shop, with only sixteen busses in service. This 13 more people
than the Lansden Company has in its employ, including all- the men
taking cafe of Lansden rigs in the City of New York.
IN RE COMMERCIAL TRUCK CO. OR AMERICA.
Mr. Gilmore: Feb. 28,1908.
The Commerical Truck Co. closed down the first of February.
I understand that Mr. Hill was given until the first of March to
raise money to resume work and had paid a deposit on a factory situated
in Newark, which expires on March 1st. Up to the night of February
25th Mr. Trill had been unable to raise the money, and did not seem
very encouraged at the prospects of being able to raise it.
•The Commercial Truck Co. had delivered 26 of the busses
to the Auto Transit Co. and one or two trucks to the Penna. Railroad
Co., also one three ton truck to a grocery firm on 14th St. near
9th Ave., New York» The truck has been in service with this firm for
three months and this morning I found out they had not accepted it,
although it did very good service during the last three months in
New York, but as Mr. Edison informed the Commercial Truck Cq. , while he
believed there was a big thing in a four wheel drive, he did not
approve of the way they were applying it, and the trucks were altogether
too heavy.
HENRY C. CRYDER
INSURANCE
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NEWYORK Marah 21, 1908.
H.ff. Miller EBq. ,
Seo'y. Thoe. A. EdiBon Esq. ,
Orange, H.J.
Dear Sir:
Your valued favor of the 19th. Inst duly reoeivea.
ffrom having seen Mr. Edison's 45 HP. MOHS running in the
City- of Hew York, in the vioinity, we suppose that all work on same
is now finiBhed, and bb mentioned to you before we wouia like you
to send us the bill that there iB for work done on thie oar imme¬
diately, that we may get this sooount straightened up without any
further delay.
On the 30th. of January last we wrote you that the So-
alete Motb of Paris had requested ub to send them the bill for the
alterations made by Mr. EdiBon, and the fact of our not having same
makes it impossible for ub to straighten out other matters with
the Sooiete Mors.
We would also Bay that inasmuch as the bill we have against
Mr. Edison iB praotioally entirely for spare partB furnished for
his 28 HP MOBS, and Mr. Edison's oharge on aooount of the 46 H.P.
Mors, due to alterations whioh he deemed neoessary in the design . .
of the oar by the Sooiete MorB, we feel it to be a particular hard¬
ship that the one aooount Bhould be balanced by the other. We our-
selves have to pay for the apare parts as soon sb they are received
in Hew York, and the property in them has no oonneotion what ever
s*l tlie Sooiete Mora.
H.E. Miller Eb*. - 2 -
We feel assured that Mr. Edison will feel the Justice of
thie and we look forward to receiving from you by return mail set¬
tlement on aooount of theBe paBt due bills, either for the full a
amount aaaompanied by bill of the repairs to the 46 HP oar, or else
for the difference, depending on what Mr. Edison's idea of justice
in thiB matter is. Cm which we feel we can safely reply.
Yours very truly,
0 RYDER & COMPANY
March 26,1908.
While in Philadelphia I learned that J . M. Hill was out
of the Commercial Truck Co. and that there was a fair prospect of
their getting in new money and reorganizing. In fact I understand
they have promises of very near the required amount and have an option
on a factory in Philadelphia.
The Auto Transit Co. is in better shape than it has
ever been before, owing to the fact that they split their run in the
middle, and are collecting five cents for each half, making ten
cents for the whole trip, where before they. only got five cents. Not
only -that, but they have extra runs, like hotel and theaters, where
they collect ten cents fare.
They have reorganized the Company and have gotten in
enough money to enable them to put on several more busses, and they
have, or are about to, close with Mr. Berg for four busses which are
now located at Boston, Detroit and ^Cleveland, also the bus which was
shipped to London. When the Commercial Truck Co. shut down they
had parts for four busses, which the: Auto Transit Co.fcave bought
and are assembling on their own premises. This makes eight -. busses
which they will be able to put into service in the course of the next
month or six weeks, and in addition to this they have decided to
purchase more, but haven't fully decided what make or size.
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Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Orange ,
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My dear Sir,
I am very pleased to have your letter of the 19th
May, since from what you state it seems the day is not very
far off when the electrical motor business in Xondon can take
a fresh start. You will probably remembor that Gilmore
sent me over a set of the old E.l8 cells. This set has been
in commercial use for six or eight months on a two-ton lan-
daulet and has given wonderfully good results. We have not
had to do a thing to the battery. Generally the performance
of the car is altogether superior to cars worked by lead
batteries,, in feet, X am so far encouraged by the results shown
by these tents that X have decided that it is about good enough
for me to buy an electric car for myself. As you will
recollect I have not gone in for a petrol car, since I do not
believe in them in the same Way as I do in electric cars.
It is now probable that I shall be in the States
June 2nd, 1908
T. A. Edison,
within the next few months when I will go over the whole
proposition with you and will "be ready to make a fair start
over here whenever you say the word.
Bergmann has now got out a car on the lines' nf the
gearless one, plans and photographs of which I sent you. 1
understand he is very pleased with the results. The‘ tests
we have made here on this type of car indicate it is vastly
superior, everything considered, to the ordinary geared Car.
Gilmore has, I think, all the particulars. I have already
written you that it is a matter of experience, even with the
high prioe of electricity here in London, that, electric cars
are very much cheaper to work than petrol cars. The size
of Battery that you are now standardising seems to me to be
about right. The E.18 cell was rather short of capacity
for convenient use in ordinary canmercial work.
Undoubtedly you will have seen from the papers I
have sent you that I am having a campaign in the House of
lords on behalf of cheap electricity. This will, of course,
very materially widen the field to which batteries can be
applied.
Trusting this will find you well and anticipating the
pleasure of seeing you before very long, I 'r&riain,
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automobile which Will run same at any Bpeed or distance, without^
any coat except for oiling.
If you will kindly grant me an interview, I will dsnonstrate
same to your entire satisfaction.
Awaiting an immediate reply, I am.
Yours truly, .. Vv
In reference to the attached memorandum, which is personal to
everyone except Mr. Edison and Harry E. Miller, it is proposed to
make a contract with the Lansden Co. hy which the entire business
of the company is bought out for $32,000.00. This sum is based on
the Profit & Loss sheet for June, attached, and is subject, of
course, to an absolute verification of the figures by Mr. Miller.
The contract will be based on the making of a supplemental
agreement with Lansden to oontinue to run the business at a salary
of $5,000.00 and 10^ of the net profit for at least two yearB.
If at any time before two years it is ooncluded that the business
is not being properly attended to, Lansden can be forced out
if in the opinion of arbitrators such a course is reasonable.
At any time after two years Mr. Edison is to have the option
to terminate the arrangement with Lansden. In case the arrange¬
ment is terminated, Lansden will receive a sum of money equal to
six and two- thirds times the salary and cornnission received by
Mm during the previous fiscal year. In other words, if Lansden
received $5,000.00 in salary and $10,000.00 in commissions, making
a total of $15,000.00, the amount to be paid him if the arrangement
is terminated will be $100,000.00.
The contract is not to be prepared until Edison has seen
Lansden again.
7/23/08. E.L.D.
[ATTACHMENT]
Agreement between Thomas A. Edison, party of the first part,
and John 1£. Dansden, Jr., of East Orange, N. J., and David S.
Dan sden of Birmingham, Alabama, parties of the second part.
The DansdenB represent that they, are the owners of the entire
oapital stock of $30,000.00 in The Dansden Company of Newark, H. J.,
a New Jersey corporation, and that the annexed statement marked
"Schedule A" is a true and correct statement of the financial
condition of said company on June 30, 1908. The said Edison
desiros to purchase and the Dansdens desire to sell- the entire
oapital stokk of The Dansden Company, said purchase and Bale to be
based on the correctness of said report. On July 13, 1908, Edison
loaned She Dansden Company the sum of $2500.00, and the amount of
said loan is to be taken into consideration in cOnneotion with the
purchase. On September 1, 1908, the Dansdens. agreed to assign
to Edison or his nominees the entire capital Stock of The Dansden
Company, together with a bill of sale, if necessary, of all
materials, tools and aooounts r eoelvable, orders on hand, goods
in process of manufacture and.al'l other asBetB of She Dansden
Company, also to turn over to Edison all of the books of aocounts
and the minute and stook books of the company.
Beginning September 1, 1908, the business will be operated for
the benefit of said -Edison. The purchase- price to be paid for the
stock based on the figures disolosed in Schedule A shall be
$35,000.00, as follows: $10,000.00 in oash, the loan of July
13, 1908, to be cancelled, making $12,500.00 in' ossh,- and the
balanoe represented by four equal notes maturing at three, six, nine
and twelve monihs from September 1st. If the condition of the
■ business on September 1, 1908, is bett er tha n is shown in
"Schedule A", the amount represented by the notes to be correspond¬
ingly increased, but if worse, the amount is- to be correspondingly
[ATTACHMENT!
(2)
3?or Xanaden's protection during the time that the hooka are
examined and until the notes mature, the stock is to he transferred
to Prank L. l}yer,a$ruBtee, with power to transfer four shares thereof
to Direotora in order to qualify same.
John H. Xansden Jr. agrees to act as Manager of The Ians den
Company and to use his best soill and ability in conducting tlia
company's affairs. He is to reoeive a salry of $5000.00 per year
in addition to the following commission: If 100 vehicles are
made on aotual order during any year hereafter commencing September
1st, 20$ of the aotual not profit; if 150 vehicles, 15^ of the
net profits; if 200 vehicles, 12^ of the net profits; if 300
vehicles or over, 10$ of tho net profits. In each case a vehiole
is understood to mean tho one-ton unit. A 2-ton unit is oaloulated
as 1 l/2 vehicles; 3-ton units as two vehicles.
If at any time after September I, 1910, Edison should be
dissatisfied with lansden' s conduot of the business, Xansden can
be removed as Manager upon the payment to him of ten times tho
aotual profit received by him during the year previous to his being
notified of that fact. In other words, if lansden made $10,000i00
during .the year immediately preceding the date of Edison's notifi¬
cation to him, he would be bought off by being paid $100j} £>00900.
ALEX.B. GORDON
LUMBER MERCHANT
SUDBURY, ONT.
JULY 27TH. 1008.
H. J. Miller, esg.,
c/o TH0MA3 A. ED I SON, ESQ. ,
Orange - N.J.
Dear Mr. Millsr:-
YOUR LETTER OF THE 23RD. , I N3TANT RE MERCURY
REOTIFISR FOR ELECTRIC CAR RECEIVED. PLEASE THANK MR. EDISON
FOR ME FOR THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN 3AMS.
I MIGHT SAY THAT I HAVE BEEN GETTING THE
CAR CHARGED AT COPPER CL I FF BUT THE ROAD BETWEEN THE TWO TOWNS
13 PRETTY HEAVY AHO GOING AND COMING U8E3 UP A LOT OB THE CURRENT
WHICH 18 VERY UNSATISFACTORY. I WILL °UT IN A RECTIFIER
AT ONCE IN MY GARAGE THAT I AM BUILDING FOR THE CAR.
How is Mr. Edison getting along with the
STORAGE 3ATTERY? I PRESUME WHEN HE GETS IT COMPLETED THERE
WILL BE NO TROUBLE IN INSTALLING ONE IN A CAR 8UCH AS I HAVE.
Trusting that this will find you enjoying
THE BE8T OF HEALTH, I AM,
P.S. DO YOU KNOW ANY ONE THERE THAT WOULD CARE TO IHVE3T
IN A GOOD MINING PROPOSITION^ I HAVE SEVERAL OLAIM8 NEAR SILVER
LAKE AND CLOSE TO ELK LAKE ON THE MONTREAL RIVER ON WHICH WE
HAVE UNCOVERED SEVEN OR EIGHT GOOD VEINS OF NATIVE 8ILVER AND
THERE ARE OTHER VEINS CARRYING GUITE A LOT OF NICKSLITE,
' f
Mr. Edison:
In referenoe to the Lansden Co., I suggest that the
business he taken over as of September 1st and from that date forward
be carried on under the new arrangement. On September lBt the
books could be audited and the amount to be paid based on the state¬
ment as of that date as compared with the statement for June, on
which your offer of #35,000.00 was based. In the meantime, between
now and September 1st I oan look over the stock matter and arrange
to have the stock transferred as soon after September lBt as possi¬
ble. In order to tide the company over temporarily, I suggest
that you advance #2500.00, which, of course, will be taken oare of
in the final adjustment.
What about providing some working capital to oany on the
business after September 1st?
In your memorandum you suggest that Harry p. Miller Bhould be
Secretary and Treasurer. Mr. lansden tells me that his present
Secretary, Mr. Milliken, is a very excellent man and is thoroughly
familiar with the work. Why would it not be well to let him con¬
tinue in this office and have Harry P. Miller act as Auditor?
’ 8/20/08.
PLD/iwW
P. X. D.
Ur. H. It. Jailer: 9/20/08.
In order to pi-ovlde capital for the Lansden Co.
let thera have chock for $10,000.00 au soon an possible.
alread,V dlecuooed this natter v.ith Hr. TJdinon.
I
please
I have
ns>/ iw
Hr. H. 3?. Miller: 9/29/08.
In reference to the lansden Co., I hand you heres^th my letter
of August Slat to Mr. Lansden together with the Aocountanta'
report and the inventories, in order that you may confirm my under-
atanding of the proper settlement to he made. In the first place,
Mr. ■Edison atated yesterday that hia understanding was the same aa
Mr. tansden's, i.e., that the statement of June 30th waB merely
an approximate statement which was later to he corrected if necess¬
ary, and he also said that he would he willing to accept aa correct
Mr. Lansden's Bavised statement of August 3lst. This latter
statement' shows an inoroase in the excess of assets over liabil¬
ities from June 30th to August 31st of #1988.72, ao that the price
to he paid will he increased to #36,988.72. We have already paid
D. S. Lanhden #10,000.00 in cash. Under the agreement we are to
pay him #17|000.00 in four notes of #4,250.00 each, maturing in
three, six, nine and twelve months. This leaves a halanoc of
#9,988.72 to he paid to John M. Lansden. Sind out from Mr. Edison
how he wiBhes to pay this balance — whether in oash or hy notoB.
I attach hereto my pencil meraorandun giving my understanding of
the situation. If you do not agree with mo in tills valculation,
let me lmow.
eld/iww
i\ 1. D.
[ENCLOSURE]
0
THE LANSDEN COMPANY
Comparative BALANCE SHEETS
June JOth and August Jlst., 1908,
and comments thereon.
<D
0
Lybrand, Ross Bros, a Montgomery
CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
NEW YORK
165 BROADWAY
PHILADELPHIA
LAND. TITLE BUILDING
[ENCLOSURE]
New York, l6th September, 1908.
Frank 1, Dyer , Eso. ,. • , .
Orange, New Jersey.
Dear Sir:- K;.-
V; The -.statements! presented by The' Lansden Company
show, the following conditions of affairs as of JOth June and Jlst '
August., 1908, respectively:-. .
th, A. S : S.,E ,T;S:
j Machinery,' Drawings, ' ‘
Patterns, i
'Finished Machines
Orders in Process
Materials and Supplies
Accounts Beceivable
Cash
Prepaid 1
Total Assets
LIABILITIES :
June JOth August Jlst
As submitted
$.12,966.08 $16,958.54
" 7,300.00 7,950.00
4.073.75
13,698.? 7
4,072.81
315.50
80.00
5,922.11
15,618.68
5,020.59
795.il
316.16
$ 42,506.51 $ 48,580.79
Accounts Payable ■
Note Payable
Accrued Wages,-.&c.:-- , hove v,,
Loans from T. A. Edison
& Nat' 1. Phonograph :.Co;
$ 13,096.59
900.00
-.1,86.98
$ 12,025.26
900.00
:: "245 i-67
1- -r- ' ■ ! 5.000.00
" ' ''Total Liabilit’ie's ‘
ooc* , 00 >$* the. Public
Nominal '.Excess. ;of Assets ■
$ 14,085.57 .-.-$,18;, 168. 93 been
•1$ 28,425.14; .$ 50 , 411.86 • -
[ENCLOSURE]
It appears from the foregoing statements that, notwithstanding
$5,000.00 of loans were contracted by. the Company during July and
August, there was still an increase in their net assets of about
$2,000.00.
In analyzing the accounts, however, we find that the increase
in assets was occasioned hy including in the August statement draw¬
ings, patterns, unused office stationery, office supplies, photo-
graphs, negatives, &c. , which did not appear in the statement of
June. In addition, the valuations of a number of items of
machinery, and also the valuations of some of the drawings have .been
raised in the August statement. Materials, supplies and fin¬
ished parts not taken in the June statement were added in the August
statement , while on the finished parts an increase in valuation of
about 25^ has been made all the way through.
When the attention of the Treasurer of the Company was called to
the foregoing changes, he explained that he understood the statement
of 50th June to be more or less approximate, and that it was there¬
fore intended to give only a general idea of the situation; whan the
new statement as of JlBt August was prepared it was very carefully
gone over and anything found to have been omitted from the 50th June
statement was added to that of August.
We do not understand, however, that such a course was contem¬
plated, as it seems clear that the purchase was made on the basis of
the statement of JOth June, in which an excess of assets of approxi¬
mately $28,000.00 was shown. If this excess of assets had been
increased during the months of July and August , the purchase price of
the business would have been increased accordingly; while on the
other hand, if there were fewer assets in the business at the end of
August , the purchase price would be decreased correspondingly. This
being the case, it certainly could not have been contemplated that the
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plant would be gone over with the minutest care and every possible item
scheduled, even though it may have been written off previously.
Drawings, patterns, stationery and other items of that character not
included in the statement of JOth June would naturally be supposed to
have been charged off prior to that time, as was the case, and it cer¬
tainly would not therefore be eo.uitable to restore them to the books
and apply them aB though they were additions to the assets which had
actually been made during the two months.
We have therefore revised the balance sheet as of 31st August and
prepared it on the same basis as that of 30th June with the following
result :-
ASSETS:
Machinery, Drawings,
Patterns, &c.
Finished Machines
Orders in Process
Materials and Supplies
Acoounts Receivable
Cash
Prepaid Expenses
Total Assets
LIABILITIES :
Accounts Payable
Rote Payable
Accrued Wages, &c.
Loans from T. A. Edison
& Nat'l Phonograph Co.
Total Liabilities
to the Public
June 30th
August 31st
Revised
$ 12,966.08
7,500.00
4,075.75
13,698.37
4,072.81
315.50
80.00
$ 12,966.08
7,300.00
5i922.ll
12,048.48
3,020.39
795.11
0
$ 42. 506. 51
$ 42,052.17
$ 13,096.59
900.00
86.98
$ 12,023.26
900.00
0
0
5.000.00
$ 14,085.57
$ i7.923.26
Nominal Excess of Assets
$ 28,423.14 $ 24,128.91
5
[ENCLOSURE]
It appears from this revised statement that there has been a de¬
crease, in the net assets of $4- ,294.25, so that the nominal excess of
assets, $28,425.14, on 50th June is reduced to $24,128.91 on 51st Aug¬
ust. ' -
In lieu of a Price $55,000.00, there would therefore only be
payable 24128/28425 of $55,000.00, equalling the sum of $29,711.15.
The payment of even this reduced sum is based on the assumption that
the valuation of the assets 50th June, 1908, will not be questioned.
Plant: With respect to the items of assets, you will note
that the Plant consists largely of drawings, designs, patterns, jigs
and other items, which are of value to the business as a going con¬
cern only, but which would be practically worthless in the event of a
sale.
The valuations placed upon some of these items, jigs for instance,
are probably estimates and we do not know whether , they are reasonable
or not. The proportion of drawings, patterns, &c. , to the total
plant is very large. Ordinarily, drawings are not. carried as an
asset at all or for a very small sum. The Bame is true of pat¬
terns; while jigs and other special tools useful only to the business
for which they were made, and sometimes useable only- for a certain
operation which may later be changed, are likewise as a rule valued
very conservatively,
The Plant account referred to is composed as follows:- ,
Machinery 4
Tools, Jigs, &c.
Office Purniture, &c.
Patterns
- Drawings ,Blue Prints ,&c .
June 50th August 51st
. _ As submitted
$ 2,576.88 $ 2,727.91
1,940.19 2,015.55
1,418.72 2,225.89
1,450.79 1,628.14
5,779.50 8.364:81;
[ENCLOSURE]
Most of the items are doubtless taken at cost , without an allow¬
ance being made for depreciation.
finished Machines:
the following :-
The item of finished machines consists of
2 Electrettes
1 " £ completed
1 Delivery Wagon
1 Express » (Decker)
$ 3,700.00
1,300.00
1,000.00
1,500.00
We have no means of judging of the values of these wagons, but
the delivery wagons at least , we understand, are not new; we do not
know whether any of them are marketable at the prices at which they
are carried, although the .Treasurer believes that they are.
Orders in Process:
The orders in process are as followB:-
Bed Touring Car.
Brown " "
Taxicab work .
Miscellaneous items
$ 2,695.78
1,155.07
1,226.20
845.06
$ 5,922.11
The red touring car and the brown touring car were taken down for
experimental purposes about 30th June, and the valuation placed upon
the parts at that time was about $2,700.00 for the two. They were
afterwards re-assembled and their entire original cost restored to
the books, so that they now appear in the work in process at a valua¬
tion of $3,800.00 as stated above.'
Materials and Supplies: The materials and' supplies account
m the ledger was increased to the extent of $1,570.20, which was
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occasioned by adding 25# to. the price. of finished parts as heretofore
Btated , aggregating, say, $800.00, and by including supplies and
materials in the August statement which were not . in that of 30th June
to the amount of about $700.00 or $800.00,. As neither of these
items can be considered an addition to the asset b made during the two
months, we have, of course, eliminated them in our adjusted statement.
Adjustments as of 30th June: In looking over the accounts
vie found that the statements' prepared as of 30th June embodied a num¬
ber of adjustments which were not actukLly made on; the books until the
first of August. The balance due to David Lansden, for instance
on 30th June, according to the books was only about $19 ,000.00 , which
was increased to $24-, 000. 00 by crediting him with interest on his ac¬
count for a number' of years back,' the total interest amounting to
$4,138.10. He was also allowed a credit of $816.68 as an abate¬
ment on the price of merchandise which had been previously charged to
him; this credit of merchandise and the foregoing credit of interest
increasing his balance from the $19,000.00 to the $24,000.00 which
appears on the statement submitted to you.
The books on 30th June showed a balance due by John M. lansden
of about $5,000.00, Which was eliminated on 1st August by crediting
him with various expenses which we assume he had paid for account of
the Company, but which had not up to that time been entered on the
books.
Shrinkage in Assets during July and August: The fact that
during the months of July and August there was an actual shrinkage of
about $4,000.00 in the assets, and not an increase, is evidenced by
an examination of the operations of those two months. The sales
were only about $1,300.00 for each of the two months and the profit
[ENCLOSURE]
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thereon above labor, materials and other expenses was merely nominal.
The factory expenses and general expenses, such as salaries, office
supplies, rents, &c. , were, hov/ever, about $2,500.00 each month, so
that after charging part of these expenses to the work in process and
to finished parts thich were made during the two months, it is quite
clear that there was a shrinkage of $4,000.00 as shown in our state¬
ment ,
Inventories: We did not understand that you wished us to
verify the actual existence or to attempt to appraise the value of the
items of plant, machines, and materials and supplies. There would
be no particular difficulty in identifying the itemB of plant or the
completed machines, but the materials and supplies and unfinished
parts consist of a very large number of small items which would be
troublesome to inventory.
We do not know whether the actual value or marketability of the
supplies and unfinished parts has been looked into but, as a general
proposition, it is usually found that some part of such merchandise is
apt to have little' value.
Accounts Receivable: The accounts receivable are believed to
be good with one or two exceptions.
Very truly yours.
THE LANSDEN COMPANY
Comparative BALANCE SHEETS, June 30th and August 31st, 1908.
Plant : .
Machinery.
Tools, -Jigs , &c,
Offioe Furniture , &c.
Patterns
Drawings, Blue Prints, &c.
Finished Machines:
1 Electrette
1 Delivery Wagon
1 Electrette
1 Do $ complete
1 Open Top Express Wagon (Decker)
1 General Vehicle Express Wagon
Ofders in Process
Materials and Supplies
Accounts Receivable
Prepaid Insurance,. &c.
Total Assets
LIABILITIES:
Accounts Payable
Note Payable, F. A. Whitten
Accrued Wage s , &c. ~'r
Loans From T.- A. Edison
and National Phonograph Co.
Liabilities to the Public .
$ 2,376.88.
1,940.19
1,418.72
1,450.79
5.779.50
$ 2,727.91
2,013.55
2,223.89
1,628.14
8,364.85
$ 2,376.88
1,940.19
1,418.72
1,450.79
5.779.5Q
12,966.08
16,958.34
12,966.08
1,850.00
1,000.00
1,850.00
1,300.00
1,300.00
0
, 1,850.00
1,000.00
1,850.00
1,300.00
1,650.00
300.00
1,850.00
1,000.00
1,850.00
1,300.00
1,300.00
0
4,073.75
5,922.11
5,922,11
13,698.37
: .13,618.68
12,048.48
4,072.81
3,020,39
3,020,39
315.5°
795.11
795.11
80.00
316.16
0 :
$42,506.51
$48,580.79
$42,052.17
$13,096.39
$12,023.26
$12,023.26
900.00
900.00
900.00
86.98
• 245.67
0
0
5.000.00
5 ,000.00
$14,o8'3l 37
$18,168,93
$17,923.26
;* August ; '31 »19°8 as. .submitted
II _ I ..?■■■—
Statement of certain Assets
as of June 30th and August Jlst , 1908 ,
showing increases made in valuations on latter
Valuation in
AdgUBt Jlst
Statement
Machinery:
1 - 14x8' Heed Lathe $
1-2' Fosdick Radial Drill
1 - Greenard Arhor Press
1 - Fairbanks Power Hack Saw
1 - High Pressure Blower
2 - Hisey-Wolf i H P Motor Drills
1 - Yankee Drill Grinder
1 - 36x8 Wood Pulley
1 - #14 Swivel Vise
1 - #2 Dividing Head
Machinery not changed in valuation _
Increases
claimed
August 31st .
581
® *2-
$ 762.00
568
@ $2-
195
@ |4-
78O.OO
292
@ $4-
145
@ $10-
1,450.00
191
@ $10-
36
@ $10-
36O.OO
81
® #15-
4
@ $15-
@ $20-
60.00
13
75
,ngs:
@ $8-
600,00
20p
750.00
A
87 @ $1-
B
73 0 3-
C
55 @ 7-
D
45 ® 12-
E
48 @ 15-
Miscellaneous 25 @ $6-
9 Full size body details $20-
Drawings not in use ,but of
value as records,
Ab auming delivery of 'batteries commences January 1st at the
rate qf three per week, Lansden proposes to manufacture so that
by January 1st he can deliver at the rate of three wagons per week.
■Expenses of all kinds will be until January 1st about $8,000.00
per month. To offset this, receipts of about $3,000.00 per month
may be expected, leaving net outlay of $5,000.00 per month, or in
three months, $15,000.00. If no receipts come in, outlay will be
$84, 000.00.
Commencing January 1st, go on full schedule of $14,250.00
per month, turning out three wagons per week, and taking care of
battery deliveries commencing April 1st, 1908.
Orange, IT. J.
Oct. ?, 1908.
[ATTACHMENT]
Average shop oost of one l ton standard
bfltinwr Material §450.00
oatLery Lab0;p 0o Total
For 150 wagons per year? shop oost,
General expense of operation, eto.
Total operating oost
express wagon, without
$£00. 00
$120000. 00
£0000.00
$170000. 00
Average prioe reoolved for 1 ton wagon, without battery $1400.00
For 150 wagons $210000.00
month
On basis of I50 wagons per year, or equivalent, pay roll per
' $4375.00
Material, average per month $5625.00
General expense per month $4260.00
Total $14250.00
Oct. 7, 1908.
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October 15, 1908.
*1
Tfiiomas A. Edison,.
W. "Orange,
New Jersey.
Dear Sir:
A complaint has been made before me against you, that
you did in the thirdd day of October, 1908, exceed the speed limit
on the stone redd leading from Trenton to Highstown. 1 have issued
a summons for your appearance on the 26th day of October next. This
summons may be served upon you in your own County by the officer
holding it for service, such service will entail a considerable
sum for mileage.
X would suggest that you accept service and acknowledge
same by endorsement upon the summons and return same to me. If
you desire so to do, I herewith inclose you the summons for such
acknowledgement . Sailing this I must proceed as directed by the
statute, regardless of the costs.
Kindly reply,
Yours respectfully,
/X, / >
Oat. 16,
1908,
Manfred Naur, Esq. ,
17 East State St.,
Room 5,
Trenton, N. J.
Sin -
Mr. Thomae A. Edloon has turned over to mo .
a summons issued by you as a Justice of the Peace of Mercer
County, citinghim to appear at Trenton on Ootober 26th
for a violation of the speed law supposed to have taken
place on the 3rd day of October.
The machine No. 3022 referred to in the 3aid
summons belongs to Mr. Edison. This is an eleotrio runabout
which is not capable of running to exceod tv/olve miles per
hoi^r, and which could not possibly go from here to Trenton.
Th^a maohine has not been away from the neighborhood of
MrV-Ediaona home, at Llewellyn Park, West Orange, for
several months, and could not possibly have been in Trenton
A
Manfred Naar, Bsci., -2-
at the time mentioned, neither was any other machine
belonging to Mr. Edison in the vicinity of Trenton on
or about the 3d of October.
1 notice that the letter which you mailed to
Mr. Edison was originally addressed to some person in
New York City and the address erased and the address of
Mr. Edison written therein. This fact lends weight to
the idea that this letter and summons must be the result
of a mistake.
This summons is evidently the result of a mistake
in reading tlia number of the machine, or is the result of
the carrying of a "fake" number by some other person,
and there is no possibility whatever of any machine belong¬
ing to Mr. Edison having violated tho speed law in or
near Trenton on October 3, 1908.
I am retaining the summons as there will be
plenty of time to hear from you before Ootober 26th, the
date on which it was returnable. I hope that you will
advise me on receipt of this letter that the summons has
bison quashed or cancelled and that there will be no;1
necessity for Mr. Edison to appear on October 26th.
Manfred Naar, Esq. , -3-
Kindly let me hear from you on this subjeot
at your earliest convenience.
Very truly yours,
HHD/R3tJ.
General Counsel .
Mr. "Edison:
10/21/08.
//
You will note from the attached letter that
of the alleged violation of the speed lav.- "by you has "bee
the matter
n adjusted.
eld/ivav
F. I. V.
[ENCLOSURE]
Frank 1. Dyer,
Orange ,
Dear Sir:
• Eeplyine t0 your 00 “munication relative to the Complaint
made against Hr. Edison I desire to inform you that evidently some¬
one is using your numhers '.and has violated the law.
I have taken the matter up with the officers and the
complaint h a been dismissed and will try and find out who it is
using the numbers detrimental to Mr. Edison.
TA9 -£\n«w.L
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
SCHENECTADY, N. Y.
Thomas i
Xj^'r"
Boston Office, 84 State Street
Hovember 4, 1908.
f
rottrh. -
. Edison, Esq. , '
Orange, iT.u. 0*''^
Ky dear Ur. Edison:
I have just returned froiV-a trip through the
V/est, and I find that a great many of the well-known carriage
manufacturers are going to build a line of electric vehicles.
I should like to opportunity of talking this
matter over with you as they are' all interested, of course, in your
battery. I shall be in ITew York tomorrow and would like to see
you tomorrow afternoon.
If convenient, please telephone r
Hew York Office #30 Church Street.
Yours very truly,
i at my
Telephone 840 Branch Brook
S' /S’
The Lansden Company
Elprtrir Hagmta
54 & 56 Lackawanna Avenue
Newark, N. J. Kovember
t
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itr. John M, Lansden* Jr. « General Manager*
Newark, N. J,
Dear 31r:-
Faotory orders now in process will
following sohednle:
t through on the
Type 107, Taxioab
• 36» 1 Ton
• 76, l/e Ton
• 86. i-i/e ion
• 46, 2 Ton
• 359 » nook Truok
5
February Total
11
6 10
5
8 2
3
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36
8 Taxioab a* 1 Type 36, 1 up* 46 and 1 Do ok Truck
finished in December are for exhibition at the into Show. For
these iobo we shall require not later than Deoember 17th
8 batteries 60 oells i»
3 * <0 * 16
In addition to the**, batteries win be required ae follows:
3 15 IS
we hat* 1 type 56 Runabout eempiete less batter? except for
finishing, for etook awaiting sales order.
w* have 1 Type 56 Runabout complete, sold to 1. a. Stratton*
Pasadena, oai.» awaiting battery.
SlIRRT . U. 1. , Jr.
We have 1 standard Type 36 chassis complete leas batteiy except
for finish, for stock, awaiting sales order.
we have 1 standard Type 106 Touring Oar in prooess for stooS,
no delivery specified.
We have three complete overhauling jobs in the repair depart¬
ment for delivery in November as follows:
New York Do ok Go's. Truok #1
Lewando's Newport wagon. Type 76
Thos. A. Edison's old Tonneau
We have repair parts on order to be delivered as rapidly as
completed during November to the approximate value of $1065.00.
Very truly yours.
The Laneden company*
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££/U_3f-D
Mr. II. F. Miller: ll/ll/08.
’.Ar, lansden tells me tliat he v/ill need $5,000.00,
which he toelieven will toe enough to keep the Lana don Co. going
through tliie month and possitoly into next month, and I vfish you
would have Mr. Edison approve this payment. The pay-roll io due
on Friday, tut nr. Lannden expeotu to have a but gi cal op erat ion
performed tomorrow, which will protoatoly keep him confined for two
or three days, so that he ia anxious to have this matter closed up
toy tomorrow morning If possible.
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4'"} Broadway H Y j-\Eay 21st 08 j
■hos Edison Orange VUW
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tar Edison:
Xn regard to ^th|L 1 o cation ,on^th^
getting i;ady, for placing the buterip. 3^ (Am
X have giveii this point muchstudf and am not ent,ii^ely^>/Uxv-> __
;hat v/e should not nlace them on the trucks?" - i ..ynHt
should! b& dn the i
> Cv>je.J 3 -^T td«J
.1 be where von \say,
;ention to the ideas that ara. suggest
iey sh^ll be where vou 'sa;
\.0r-tASrJc> — y o* ia i»|Kui'
full duty in not calling
The following seem i
) be th
thpir opinions in r.-
i not in any way interfere with present arrangement
of seats, or space under seats now partially used fnr
cables, sand boxes, wheel covers, heating devices ETC*
change from open to closed <
■s, tnuclc being the
7th ; smoother riding <
, due to light load in body.
8th ; cheaper and simpler construction.
There may be others but X canfit think of them.
tost serious point is the arrangement of the
body in the case of placing the batteries under the seats, in a
closed car, so -as to remove them conveniently.
If removed from the inside of the car it means taking out the
trays and removing thru the doors.
If from the outside , it means placing a door along the
whole length of the body above the lower sill on each side; you
will observe that this will r
body must be formed like thi
This strikes me as very
The advantage of having th
seem to be only the greater convenience of inspection.
I think that this point is more appearant than real,
beaause in the operation of a line of cars dependent upon its
batteries for succesful operation, they become the one most
important feature of the plant and therefore likely to receive
the best attention.
By placing them between the wheels in the centre of the
truck, they can be removed by running the car over a pit
as iff at present customary in removing the motors, and
all roads have in their car barns these pits, and instead of begiig
required to carry a surplus of cars it would be only necessaryto
carry a surplus of batteries.
Kindly let me have your advice as soon as possible
as r must get this point clear in order to go ahead with the
construction of the car.
Bernhard Beslcow, •
604 West X35th Street,
New York City.
Thomas A. Edison, Esq,,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir:-
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November 27th,, 1908. I / *
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October 20th X forwarded you a blue print X had received
from Lansden Motor Company. On the same Blue print I had made the
necessary changes for the application of my wheel to your truck.
Now I have heard nothing from Mr. lansden. I called him up by phone
some time ago and learned that you had forv/arded the blue print to
him. After that I called him up several times, but have not been
able to get any satisfactory answer or make any appointment.
I know very well that you want to make some trials before
closing a deal with me, which trials of course, I would be very
pleased to have you do, but I would like to give my advice in regard
to some points in the construction of said wheel, which points I
have found out .
V/hen you Mr. Edison took so much interest in my wheel as
to even consider to have them constructed, I don't want Mr. X,ansden
to pigeon hole the blue print, a3 winter is drawing close, and the
time is ripe to show the advantage of my wheels over other kinds.
Hoping to hear from you in the near future, I am.
Respectfully yours,
£/6~
l.unaden Compjtrjy'j J ^
^ ifovinrit?' H. /I” . . '"* ~" ,.'
Dour Mr: ■*' s>x ' '*' '
• '.,I".,?5rie!W of th0 natr expterimente v;hlch ,irr. Kdiaon is raa):- •
ina on tho^storo^e batteries ancl the further dcjLay which v/iil be
inourred,^ you must make armn«einentB to out. down cxpcmios. X
BUggcet^ ttot yow consider t. ho matter ar.d. let -me knov; what you propoa,
to do so that v.-e can decide on a definite plan.
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1908. Battery - Primary (D-08-02)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the
primary batteries produced by the Edison Manufacturing Co. Among the items
for 1 908 are letters and memoranda concerning the Battery Supplies Co. of
Newark, which was acquired by the Edison Manufacturing Co. in that year. Also
included are items pertaining to advertising, expenses, and relations with the
Western Electric Co. of Chicago. Most of the selected letters are by Frank L.
Dyer, who succeeded William E. Gilmore as vice president of the Edison
Manufacturing Co. in July 1908.
Approximately 50 percent of the documents have been selected. The
documents not selected consist primarily of memoranda concerning a
dissatisfied customer in Leland, Michigan, and documents that duplicate
information in selected material.
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Glltiractit
*v. E. GILMORE , General fianHe'or7
National J.'honograph Norks,
Oor. University Place ft Eighth St.
New york Sity.
My dear Mr. Giimore:
After we had our first row and got together, I made
you a promise that whenever v/e got into another, or saw things
•heading towards trouble, I would take the matter up with you.
I am afraid that matters have reached a point where
I must write you in a confidential manner in regard to our re¬
lations with the Battery Supplies Company.
For the past few months they and their employees have
been the bitterest enemies that we could possibly have, and as
a result several of cur houses are up in the air to such an ex¬
tent that is is difficult for me to handle them because I have
nothing to handle them on but a special 5$ discount, which is
extended to us by the Battery Supplies Company.
2he present policy of Mr. Dodge will ultimately eliminate
us from handling the Battery Supplies Company's material, and in
self defense we will of course have to take up something else. I
cannot believe that this meets with your approval, and I am there¬
fore writing you this confidential letter to ask if I may make an
engagement with you to discuss this matter on my return to New York,
which will be in about ten days. I may get back before that, but
MR. V/.E.. Gilmore . #2
4/3/08
I put it ton days at the latest.
If you do not know the present situation I would not
like you to mention to fir. Podge that I made a complaint to you,
I should prefer that this he kept quiet until I have had an in¬
terview with you.
c/1
Suppl;
ruly
:les Manager.
ply-nale
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Copy of Post- card fee¬
ing mailed to list of Motor
Boat Clufes, Motor Boat'
Owners and special "Push"
■ list.
ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT.
i May 2nd, 1908.
V^OULDN’T you like to be as sure of
^ ^ your ignition as the railroads are of
the successful working of their block
signals?
Edison Primary Batteries for sparking gas
engines in motor boats are the same as those used
in signal equipments by many of the largest rail¬
roads in the country, except as to size. Get them
in the boat you buy. Put them in the boat you
EDISON MANUFACTURING COMPANY
SO Lakeside Avenue, Orange, N. J.
May ivc lend a Booklet?
Mr. Gilmore;
RECEIVED
MAY 13 IP""
Gen’l Mgrs 0 : '
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May 11th, 1908.
I have written Mr. Eookafollcw, aB per oopy herewith , and
trust it may meet with your approval . He still feels I liave committed
a crime in not recognizing the V/e stern Eleotrio Compuny in the sale of
the "BSCO" Battery. I pointed out to him as clearly as I could our
reason for handling this business direct, and, as usual, he was obliged
to acknow lodge the truth of my statements, in regard to the necessity
of keeping men actively at work on the railroad situation in order to
hold their business but still maintained tliat the western Electric Com¬
pany are being very badly treated. The only suggestions he oould make
were, a a follows;
Eirst; - They would ho willing to pay half of a salesman's
salary and expense .
Seoond:- r/ould guaranteo that a reasonable stock would he
carried .
Third;- They would U3e their traffio department.
First: - As it would he impossible for one man to take care
of the railroads in a proper manner, I explained to
him tliat this offer would not aid us .
Second;
Tlio question of carrying a stook to take care of the
railroad trade is not a very important one . This
is particularly so where their stook is carefully
watched, which we find can he done very nicely and
is an assistance to the road, which is ajipreciated .
“““ tl»e where the signal engineer ex¬
presses a willingness to accept any one of soveral
makes of cells and where pricos are eoual . There-
•si:
this way*.
Mr. Gilmore ITo . H.
I think you will agree with me that if it ia possible to make
Mr. Eookafellow feel reasonably satisfied and agree to continue to
handle the Gladstone line without making any concessions on the new
ooll, it will bo a good stroke of business. You will see from the re¬
sults obtained during the last two months that the more time we can
gain the stronger wa will become. During the month of March the total
amount of orders received was §12,461.05 of which we received §7,401.08
direct and through the Western Electrio Company §4,979 .97. In April
the total orders received amounted to §18,375.72 of which we reoeived
direct §14,228 .24 and the Western Electric Company §4,147.48. So far
this month orders have been light, hut we have reoeived direct to date
§2,665.32 against §776.09 through the Western Eleotrio Company. You
will see we are beginning to get in some very good work.
Eo doubt you know that the Gordon Battery Company have re¬
organized, or in any case, Lockwood, who is conneotod with them, lias
incorporated in Eew Jersey a new company, which I understand is known
as The lutz -Lockwood Manufacturing Company and are located at P.oBelle,
" • J * • "r • Eookafellow tells me that someone connected with the Western
Electrio Company has put §10,000.00 in the game. This may or may not
be a hand out to show what he contemplates but it looks so. He did not
tell me who it was and I did not ask. It is my personal opinion that
we have very little to fear from competition so far as the Gordon cell
is oonoerned, even if it was taken up by the Western Eleotrio Company.
I leave here this afternoon for Chicago and will meet Mr.
Dolbeer there tomorrow, leaving tomorrow night for Dos Angeles, where I
Mr . Gilmore , Ho . 3 .
expeot to spend about a week. If you should oare to oommunioat
Hudson oan give you my address where I oan be reaohed by mail o
If I am not asking; too much of you, I would greatly appreciate
from you advising me as to the outcome of your interview with M
e with me,
r telegram .
a line
r. Hooka-
follow .
[ENCLOSURE]
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May llth, 1908.
Mr. E. (I . Roohafellow, Supply Sales Manager,
C/o Western Eleotrio Company,
Hew York, K. Y.
Dear Sir:
I oannot help hut feel that although we have deoiled to handle
the "BSCO" Primary Battery direct, you would make a mistake if you did
not continue to sell the Gladstone material as a general proposition.
This would enable us to allow you the favorable prices you have enjoyed
in the past. On the other hand, should you make it a looal proposition
we would, of course, be compelled to reduce your discount to the basis
to whioh each house handling the material would then be entitled. The
very fact of you having an aggregate of at least $65,000.00 worth of
business, which you should be able to hold against any competition should
be a good and sufficient reason for continuing your arrangement with us
as a general proposition, even without regard to the probability of great-
ly argumenting your sales. There is no question but this could be done
if your branch houses would carry a reasonable stock and you would insist
upon their salesmen pushing the specialty. As the reorganization of your
sales force has been perfected and the various sales departments are
again in shape to go after business in a more comprehensive and energetic
manner our proposition should now be even more attractive than ever.
There has been a very extensive distribution of complete cells throughout
[ENCLOSURE]
COPY
Mr. E. W. Rookafellow , Do. 2.
the oountry during the past few years and there are now in use about five
hundred thousand cells of battery all of which require renewals. In
addition to this we have distributed a vast amount of attractive adver¬
tising matter as well as having advertised extensively in the trade
journals and otherwise, and the demand for Gladstone material is now
very much more healthy than it has ever been before.
I think I am safe in saying that the bulk of the business done
by the various branch houses exclusive of the railroad business is done
at a discount of 30-10?$ on cells and 30-5?$ on renewals, and I should judge
that at least 70?$ would represent your sales on renewals, upon which we
allow you a discount of 40-7-l/2?$, and the balance of 30?$ would represent
the amount of oells sold, upon whioh we allow you a discount of 40-10?$,
and in some oases 50?$, from which you will see that the business you are
now doing and will.be able, pith your widely distributed branohes, to
hold and increase is really the most profitable part of it.
We will, of course, be only too glad to give you any assistance
we can in the way of having our representatives call on your branch houses
with a view of keeping them posted, and to give them any other aid that
may be desirable .
I expect to leave Chicago for the ooast on Tuesday and upon my
return I shall be very glad to discuss this matter further with you should
you so desire.
Yours very truly,
BATTERY SUPPLIES COMPANY, Ino .
(Signed) E. G. Dodge,
President & General Manager.
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rny 18th, 1908.
Mr. F . 1. Dyer:
In accordance with your instructions,
I have discussed with Mr. Brodie the advisability of
consolidating the two battery companies, and wish to
report as follows:
It would appear that a saving of
probably §17,500. could be effected in the course of
a year by this consolidation. Shis figure is based
upon last year's business, and while I believe it is
a conservative estimate, it is only approximate and
should be so considered. In malting this estimate, it
is assumed that the Edison Manufacturing Company will
increase its present selling force by at least two
men, by talcing over three men from our present sell¬
ing organisation and discontinuing the services of
one of the men now in your employ, who, I under¬
state is not altogether satisfactory.
It would seem to me it is imperative,
in view of the possible difficulty of holding all of
our customers after consolidation, that the active
selling force of the Battery Supplies Company (three
men) should be held together, at least for a time.
Two of these men have been devoting their time entire¬
ly to road work, and the other has been acting as sales
manager, directing and following up the work of the
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salesmen anti attending to all sales correspondence
and advertising, as well as making trips as occas¬
ions require. All three of these men are personally
acquainted with the principal buyers and have made
many personal friends in the trade.
1 am not, of course, familiar with the
details of your selling organization and, therefore,
do not attempt to make any comparison between the two,
but I wish to say that the system we have established
has shown such satisfactory results, even under the
most adverse conditions, I am confident the continu¬
ance of this line of work would be beneficial.
In the Fall of 1906, it became apparent, as
the business of the Western Electrio Company in Glad¬
stone material showed an increase of sales to rail¬
road companies and a decrease of business in other
lines, that our material was not getting proper sup¬
port from the various branch houses of the Western
Electric Company. The increased sales to railroad
companies was due to the fact that we had a man call¬
ing upon the railroads, doing missionary work on
Glad stone -Island e batteries for the benefit of the
Western Electric Company under an agreement in force
at that time, by which we were not permitted to take
orders direct. This made it necessary for me to
organize a sales departibent and to obtain permission
from the Western Electric Company to compete with them
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for business, as I was convinces that our arrangement
was not only an unprofitable one, but one which would
tena to prevent the development of the business.
Furthermore, any sales effort or advertising simply
benefitted the Western Rlectric Company; in other
words, we were doing the work and they were securing
the orders .
It was clearly evident, however, that in
order to become independent of the Western Rlectric
Company and compete successfully with other 'battery
manufacturers selling batteries of cheaper construction,
it would be necessary. to produce a battery superior to
those on the market, and one which could be made at
smaller cost. This I endeavored to do, and by the
time the "BSCO" cell was ready for the market, our
selling organization was established, and we were
then in a better and stronger position to make an
aggressive selling campaign.
The "BSCO" cell was first introduced at the
annual convention of the Hailway Signal Association at
Milwaukee, in October last, and the following brief
summary of the number of "BSCO" cells ordered by
various prominent railroads during the past nine
months will indicate how well the battery is looked
upon by the railway signal engineers.
SUMMARY OF "BSCO" CELLS ORDERED SO JULY 18, 1908.
Central Railroad Company of Hew Jersey, - 1,786
Chicago ft Eastern Illinois Railroad , - 846
Chicago, Rock Island ft Pacific Railroad, - 3,608
St. louis ft San Francisco Railroad, - 572
Chicago, Burlington ft Quincy Railroad, - 200
Chicago, Milwaukee ft St. Paul Railway, - 1,798
Cincinnati, Hamilton ft Dayton Railway, - 341
Cincinnati, Hew Orleans ft Texas Paoifio Railroad, - 704
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago ft St. Louis Railway, 1,026
Michigan Central Railroad, - 1,000
Erie Railroad, - 537
Lake Shore ft Michigan Southern Railway, - 4,050
Hew York, Ontario ft Western Railway, - 704
Pittsburg ft Lake Erie Railroad, - 1,216
Pennsylvania Railroad, - 2,525
northern Pacific Railway, - - — 284
Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis, - 352
Total, . . 21,549
International Harvester Company of America, - 4,000
Otto Cas Engine Works, - 184
Grand total, - - 25,733
Most of the business represented by this
list has been done during the past four months, the
previous five months being devoted largely to the
introduction and testing of the battery. The list
is not a complete one, including only the roads which
have installed a comparatively large number of "BSCO"
cells .
The objection of the Western Electric Co.
to the present arrangement arises from the fact that we
have not placed them in a position to sell "BSCO"
material, either to the railroad companies or to any
other class of trade. The reasons for this policy on
our part are manifold. In the first place, whether the
"Western Electric Co. handled the battery or not, it
would have been necessary for us to do all introductory
work, furnishing all material required for test and
bearing all of this extraordinary expense. It did not
seem reasonable, therefore, that the Western Electric
Company should be paid a commission merely for taking
the orders, or that they should be placed in a position
to control this business which really had to he worked
up by us. As the situation now stands, we are
recognized by the trade, and especially by the rail¬
road companies, as a progressive manufacturer v/hose
product is not controlled by the jobbing trade. ThiB
is an important feature, as there seems to be a
tendency on the part of the railroads to aeal direct
with the manufacturer wherever possible, rather than
through jobbers.
This is especially true in so far as it
relates to the Western Electric Company as a jobber,
as they have antagonized the purchasing departments
of various roads by the injudicious influence of
their traffic department to force business over the
heads of the purchasing agents. This is shown
clearly by the fact that we were able to secure and
hold the business of the Chicago, Hook Island &
Pacific Ry. and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Hy.
and others over whose lines the Western Electric Co.
were heavy shippers, notwithstanding they brought all
the influence possible to bear upon the traffic de¬
partments of these roads.
During our entire fiscal year, ending February
29th, 1908, the total amount of railroad business done
through the Western Electric Co. was $55,153.30. During
this period, we did practically no railroad business
direct. Compared with this I might say that, diiring
the four months ending June 30th, 1908, our direct-
railroad business in "BSCO" material alone has amounted
to $18,771.22, while the business done by the Western
Electric Company with the railroads during the same
period, amounts to $1,978.66, against $20,963.75 done
by them during the corresponding period last year.
Although -*-he Western Electric Company is a
very large organization, and on the face of it, it
might seem that they could influence a large amount of
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business, as a matter of fact a careful analysis shows
that this is not the case. At the present tine they
are doing hut little, if any, business in batteries
with other electrical jobbing houses , owing to the
fact that the jobbers, in self defense, are actively
opposing them, ana as far as possible, will not handle
any material from which the Western Electric CompaJ^
reaps a benefit. The railroad and gas engine business
requires salesmen specially trained for this class of
work, and the Western Electric Company salesmen are not
qualified to give these two lines proper attention.
One of the greatest difficulties we have found in get¬
ting satisfactory results through the Western Electric
Company, however, is due to the frequent changes in the
personnel of their selling force, and this, coupled with
the large variety of specialties they are obliged to
handle, makes it almost impossible for them to post
themselves properly as to the merits of any one special¬
ty or to give it the attention it requires.
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As our present relationship with the Western
Electric Company stands, we have agreed to continue to
sell them Slad stone -T.alande material at the same dis¬
counts as they have obtained in the past, provided they
will continue to push the sale of same and to secure a
sufficient amount of business to warrant these special
prices. Personally I feel that if you place them upon
the same basis as your Speoial Agents, which is practical¬
ly the same as the basis upon which we are now selling
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them, that this will hold their business. The total
business done by the Western Electric Company in Glad¬
stone material during the first four months of our
present fiscal year amounts to $17,454.89, or an
average of more than $50,000. in purcliases per year,
and it does not seem likely they would sacrifice this
amount of business for an uncertainty, as it would
require a considerable time for them to work up an
equal amount of business with any battery other than
the Gladstone or Edison.
I have discussed the matter of our relations
with the western Electric Company at considerable
length, in order that you may be thoroughly posted and
able to judge as to the best course to be pursued
hereafter.
After the consolidation of the two battery
companies, there will be three manufacturers prominent
in the field, viz. Edison Manufacturing Company,
Waterbury Battery Company and Gordon Battery Company.
The Gordon Battery Company is not considered a strong
competitor, though they have recently reorganized
their company and have secured the services of an active
sales manager (Mr. W. F . Hessel), who was formerly
connected with the Western Electric Company, and later
with Sruart -Howland company of Boston. But, while, the
Gordon Battery makes a fairly good showing on a labora¬
tory test, it has never given any degree of satisfaction,
in comparison with other batteries on the market, and
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while it might become more prominent hereafter, 1
think this is hardly likely. Furthermore, it is a
more expensive battery to make than the "BSCO".
T/afilSBtSr 3ATT:'7.Y This leaves the ^aterbury battery as the chief
competitor, anti while it is looked upon favorably by a
number of signal engineers, it is x-umored that some of
these are interested in the company. We understand
further that the Bryant Sine Company, selling agents for
the Taterbury Battery, are related in some way to the
General Hailway Signal Company, which latter concern has
been instrumental in placing a miraber of Wat or bury cells .
It seems scarcely reasonable that the Bryany Sine Company
would enter into a contract with the Western F.lectric Co.
to handle Taterbury cells, a3 the Bryant Sine Company is
wholly a railway supply concern, mamxfaetxiring and selling
various railway signal appliances in conjunction with the
batteries .
Biscc::ri::u:-:
r:.;U)C to::s
In view of the fact that F.dison and Clad stone
cells are entirely interchangeable, I think the manufac¬
ture of the Gladstone battery could be discontinued
without loss of business, as F.dison material oould be
supplied on all orders for thiB style .
"BSCO" BATTHRY
I believe it would be adviseable to continue
the manufacture and development of the "BSCO" battery,
as we have been able to create a considerable demand for
it, and it has already had the indorsement of the railway
signal engiheers and a number of the large feas engine
manufacturers . Furthermore, it is less expensive to 1
manufacture than any of the other cells in use , showing
a greater margin of profit, and owing to its simplicity,
greater efficiency and lower cost of maintenance, it is
the most saleable cell on the market at the present time,
1 understand from Hr. Drodi e that he will be
able to take over the manufacturing on or about Septem¬
ber 1st, and if the time of consolidation is made Sept.
1st, this will give us an opportunity to make up a
sufficient stock of material to take care of all re¬
quirements until additional stock is produced at
Silver hake.
FRISCO
ORDER
Furthermore, we are now endeavoring to
secure the large order for batteries to be installed
on the St. louis 5s Sun Francisco Railroad, and from the
best information obtainable, we understand that the
choice of batteries lies between the "BSCO" and V/aterbury,
wit'li the chances much in favor of the "BSCO" . As the
consolidation might have a tendency to influence the
placing of the order with the Haterbury Battery Company,
I think it adviseable to defer the notification of the
trade until September 1st.
I attach hereto manufacturing cost cards, as
requested, and would state that our selling expense last
3DIS0B IZAFDFAC T CRIB'S 0 QUEASY.
DAIRY 1U3PORI OP IABCJB 0ISDBR3 liBCSIViSD FOS BAS I SHY MIISB1AI. #120.
September 8th, 1908.
C. 2. 0. & T. E. By. Co., Cincinnati, Ohio.
80 BSCO Type 1 Cells.
160 BSCO Type 1 Renewals
52 BSCO Type 1 Sodas.
Electric Appliance Co., Chicago, Dill.
1500 Edison Renewal Parts.
San Antonio Machine & Supply Co., San Antonio, 'Texas.
25 Iffi Cells
50 P.?. Renewals
50 V Renewals .
Columbus Machine Co., Columbus, Ohio.
100 KB Cells.
Ur. Eyke: 9/14/08.
The Battery Supplies Co., having boon ah sorted by the
■Edison Mfg. Co. and the business of the two concerns being consol¬
idated at Orange, the question comes uu of terminating the
corporate expenses of the Battery Supplies Co. Mr. Wes tee I
understand ha3 all the books of the Battery Supplies Co. You
wan fc to take such action as will transfer any cisuets now standing
in the name of the Battery Supplies co. In this connection I hand
you herewith patent granted to Mr. Bodge on tho so-called BSCO
cell, Ho. 894487, together with asoignmont to the Battery Supplies
Co. This patent, together with any others standing in the name
fif the Battery Supplies Co., should he transferred to the Edison
STjD/IWW ]f, L. B.
Enc- ■
feccxzi^ , S'/
w. V.. ]?. Miller* 9/29/08.
Some time ago 1 brought up with Mr. Wilson the ques¬
tion of paying Hr. Bodge for His patent on the "BSOO" hatter y,
which, has now been asslennd to the -Edison Manufacturing Co. Mr.
Edison suggested that $1,000.00 he paid Mr. Bodge rad**. Bodgo
toll,, mo that this will he satisfactory to him. Before drawing
the check I wish you would bring the matter again to Mr. Edition’s
attention bo that he can approve this suggestion.
IBB AW/
E. L. B.
11/13/08 <
Mr. Me Oho sney:
. I have read the attaohed proof relating to the BSCO
battery with a good deal of interest. It seems to me that it
contains some very excellent points, hut in some respects it
should ho changed.
References to Storage Batteries should make it perfectly
clear that what is meant is the Lead Cell, hut in any event the
subject is a delicate one and upon reflection we might decide to
leave it out altogether.
References to Dry Batteries are pretty strong and may go
over the line of fairness. What is your opinion on this point?
The specific reference to the ‘Edison Battery on page 23
should undoubtedly come out.
The pamphlet seems to he a very good argumont in favor of the
Edison and BSCO type of battery, and it occurs to me that we might
modify it hy having it apply to all of our hatterieB without
specifically referred to the BSCO type.
As a matter of fact, the Edison Storage Battery is very closely
allied to these Primary Batteries, the theory of operation being
the same, hut with the Primary Battery the active materials are
consumed while with the Storage Battery they are regenerated
at eaoh charging of the battsrieB. PerhapB Mr. Dodge might see
a way to refer to this fact so that it would he made perfectly
clear that the references to Storage Batteries cannot possibly
apply to the Edison Storage Battery.
As soon as Mr. Brodie satisfies himself that the statements
made in the proposed catalogue are substantially oorreot, I
would llkB to have thiB matter brought up again because on the
whole the pamphlet strikes me as being well -written and we might
get some benefit from it. P. L. D,
PLD/lW
117
MEMORANDUM
Mr. MoOlWiBney:
12/l5/o8.
I observe that advertising expenses for the 'Edition
Kfg. Co. are higher this your than lcjal. la thia caused by the
absorption or the Battery Supplies'co.? If net, I vich you would
give Lie a brief report on the ydonparat .ive advertising done last
year and this.
ELD AW
1908. Battery - Storage - General (D-08-03)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the
commercial and technical development of Edison's alkaline storage battery.
Among the items for 1 908 are reports by William G. Bee, manager of sales, on
the performance of cells, letters and memoranda concerning the financial
health and management of the Edison Storage Battery Co., and a list of
company stockholders. Also included are letters requesting information about
the batteries, samples of which have been selected.
Approximately 60 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected include routine letters of inquiry, letters of transmittal and
acknowledgment, and documents that duplicate information in selected
material.
ifr. V/'cstoe:
I do not know what we are ever going to do with
the Storage Battery Co., but it looks to me as though there will
have to be some writing down of the entire plant one of these
days. I think you did give it some consideration sometime ago.
There are a great many items here that have got to be absolutely
wiped out, such as Prospecting, $43,027.42; Organizing Expenses,
$2,021.75; Hotor Cycle, #1,007.54, etc. etc. As to when you
want to do it, of course, I do not know.
Eno-C
W. E. Gilmore.
ifiimk/liicHiani
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3foAmrS&S$inffimc
Thoms A. Edison ,
Sehri ,1908.
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President of Edison Storage Battery Co.,
0ran;;e, IT. 7. &X^A~ et ****■> '
Dear Sir: urj. ^ jot «**
As a stockholder of the Edison Storage Battery Co. will- _
WW * IrfJijU tf/X.'t t-VM^ ^ ■ft-f
you hindly favor me with a statement of The Company 's condition and
generally such other information regarding its prospects and
as I iriEy he entitled, to.
OWVMav
V. (^kJjiA)
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Mr. A. Westee:
Referring to the attached Trial Balance as of Dec.
31, 1907, I presume that the Edison Storage Battery Co. are dos¬
ing up their hooks as of Eoh. 29, 1908, and it Beems to me that
what wo ought to do is to go through it and Bee whether we want to
cut out any of these so-called assets, as indicated therein.
There is no question in my mind that a great many of these items
should bo wiped off the hooks or something done with them, and I
presume you will bring it up at the proper time.
EDISON STORAGE EATT
Mr. Gilmore:-
R Y C 0 .
March 18,1908.
Regarding making a report to Mr. Bergmann, would
recolnmend that we wait until we can obtain results from two more new
cells, which will go on test tomorrow. As previously stated, the two
cells which we have been testing were not put up with the intention
of being tested electrically, but more to have Mr. Rogers check
his 'weight s , tools etc. On the first run these two ce.lls showed
up fairly well, and then started to drop off on the following runs,
but on the 6th began to pick up again. This is characteristic, as
Mr. Edison stated it would be. These. are the first two cells made.
Run
Amp . Hr .
Discharge Charge
#1
186 l /4
181
l/2 24 hrs. (
2
181
177
" *
3
174 l/2
171
" -
4
170
167
1/2 " "
5
142 1/2
138
7 1/2 "
6
173 l/2
162
24 "
7
192 l/2
186
l/2 " "
7*M A/
Port Myers, Lee County, Pla.
Lear Sir:-
The following is the report up to date on testa of two
cells which Hr. Rogers put up to test tools and v/eight of cells.
At tho tim" these cells were put up we did not expect to give than
electric teats, "but did run them and obtained the following results: •
Calling the cells "A" 4£Vid"! 1A4X"
A 4 -J* 4X
1st run, with 24 hours oliarge at 30 amperes. 186 1/4 ah 181 l/2ah
2nd " " " " " " " " 181 " 177
3rd n » " " " " " 174 l/2 " 171 "
4th " " " " " » " " 170 " 167 l/2 "
5th " " 7 l/2" " " " " 142 1/2 " 138 "
6th " " 24 " " " " " 173 l/2 " 162 "
Sadler then found he did not have the same proportion of
Li 0 H that you wbb using in the test tubes, so ho changed the
solution and put in the proper proportion of Li 0 H.
A 4 A»X
7th run, with 24 hrs. charge at 30 amp., 192 1/2 ah 186 ah
8th " " " " " " " " 181 3/4 " 175 "
9th " " v
160 l/« " 146 "
160 l/2 " 147 "
10th
further runs on A4 and A4X
13th run, with 6 l/z hr. charge at 30 amp.
14th " " 6 " * " " "
15 th " " 5 l/z " . .
5 .. M It „ ..
A4 A4X
148 144 1/Z
140 l/2 137 1/2
132 3/4 130 1/2
124 l/2 123
16th
[ATTACHMENT]
Mr. W. G. Bee:
%
Referring t
0 the attached communication, is there
anything leter to report
on the new type cell?
4/9/08 .
W. E. Gilmore,
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Mr. ThoB. A. US'S non
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March 23,1908.
Two more oellB were put up and put on test. These cells we
numbered "1" :<nd "2".
Total weight fcf oells 6895 grannies ( 13 lhs. 6 grannies)
Weight of K 0 H 1695
Weight of Cell empty 4200 "
. Average weight of ir on, gockets
Plaice
Hydrate
1st discharge, with 24 hr. oharge at 30 amp. 171 1/4 aB. 169
According to previous data these two oells should show up
better on further discharges.
( 3 lbs. 12 oz.
( 9 lbs. 4 oz.
7.709 grammas
1.360 "
9.5745 "
#1 ,
Yours respectfully,
April 9th, 1908.
infrid attached copies of various runs on new cells
/ate. Mr .Rogers has made up two other cells hut has held them up
,b'eing on test, owing to the fact that we do not get the
propoM-i'tmat e results that they do at the Laboratory on single tubes,
and ac codding to our previous experience we always got higher results in
a complete cell than we have in a 'single tube.
Mr. Rogers is in hopes that this is caused by some
mechanical defect, and thinks he knows just where it is. You are
aware that 75 fo of the capacity per cell on a' 24 hour charge is the
capacity per cell on a commercial charge.
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me that it will bo just tho method for my class of work*
Yours very truly,
Mr. H. P. Millor:
9/21/08.
In accordance with Mr. Edison's request, I have engaged
Mr. Eben G. Dodge to look after the details of the Storage Battery
business, hut it haa not "been decided exactly what his title shall
he. His salary v/ill he $75.00 per week, commencing September
17th. Please make a note of this fact.
pld/iot
S'hsA-agY^
Mr. Edison:
10/26/08.
In reference to the Storage Battery Co., the by-laws
provide for a meeting of the Stockholders the first Monday in
November, so that if a meeting is to he held this year notice
should he sent out hy Wednesday, five days notice being required.
There has never been a meeting of the stociholders since
the formation of the company and perhaps you would not care to
have one called. Personally I believe it would be well to have a
meeting because there are a number of outside stockholders who
are entitled to know the situation of the company, and I believe
it would be much better to take them frankly into our confidence.
By having a Stockholders meeting we can elect an entire new
Board of Directors. If we do 'not have a Stockholders meeting
we will have to make changes in the Board by holding a Directors
meeting. The present Directors are:
Edison
Mallory
. GilmerC'
Crane
Pilling
If Ur. Gilm^e*^raWo beretired as a Director I will have to
get his resignation, because he owns stock personally. Further¬
more, if changes are to be made by a Directors meeting we will
have to get Mallory to come down and also Pilling or Crane, because
four are necessary for a quorum. On the whole, it Beems to me
that it would be much better to have a Stockholders meeting
because the changes can be made very readily in that way and a
resolution can be passed confirming all the acts of the Directors
heretofore performed. 3P.L.D.
List of Stockholders of "Edison Storage Battery Co.
4/- Herman "E. Diok, 163 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Ill. ^
/ Walter S. Mallory, C/o Edison Portland Cement Co., Stewartsvillc, N.J.
/ o William E. Gilmore, The Ansonia, Broadway & 73rd St., New York,
•y / 3 V" Thomas A. Edison, Orange, N. J.
>-^T, I. Crane, Girard Trust Building, Philadelphia, Pa.
W. s. Pilling, Girard Trust Building, Phila. , Pa.
x L> John P. Randolph, 93 Valley Way, West Orange, N. J.
yi*V. W. Whitridge, Atty., 59 Wall St., New York
ir-] W. H. Shelmerdine, Philadelphia Bank Bldg., Phila., Pa.
yfo Henry A. Brown, 210 S. 7th St., Philadelphia, Pa.
SD James Gaunt, 365 Canal St., New York
R. N. . Dyer , 31 Nassau St . , Hew York
/ o Isaac N. Robinson,
P. S. Witherbee, 71 Broadway, New York
i^Pilling & Crane, Girard Trust Building, Phila., Pa.
Z-S Thomas T. Gaunt, 11 WeBt 36th St., New York
/3 Harlan Page, Allens Bane, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa.
vf Chas. W. Price, Park Row Building, New York
/ o John V. Miller, c/o Edison Chemical Works, Silver lake, N. J.
•3^ Chas. T. Hughes, 32 N. Arlington Ave., East Orange, N. J.
z-S'r. H. Thompson, Prince & Conoord Sts., Brooklyn, N. Y.
'S W. R. Janvier, 365 Canal St., New York
/•S' Win. Bayly, 410 Douglas Building, Los Angeles, Cal.
zS Willard P. Reid, c/o Edison Portland Cement Co., Stewarts vi lie ,N. J.
/<Mrs. Annie Witherbee, C/o P. S. Witherbee, 71 Broadway, New York
C, B. HoLaughlin, c/o P. S. Witherbee, 71 Broadway^ New York
/'J-Hmna W. P. Page, Allens Lane, Germantown, Phila., Pa.
Bayard Domini ok, 100 Broadway, New York
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i-J-C lee Kretsohmar & Co., 51 Exchange Place, New York
o'® S. J. Shaubaoker,
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/o B. V. Becker,
/a M. G. 'Edwards
E, P. Ott, c/o Edison laboratory, Orange, it. J.
a.'0 Albert Smith,
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1908. Battery - Storage - Foreign (D-08-04)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to
the patenting, manufacture, and sale of Edison storage batteries in countries
other than the United States. Most of the documents concern relations
among Edison, Sigmund Bergmann, and Bergmann’s Deutsche Edison-
Accumulatoren-Co. Included are items pertaining to supplies and equipment,
Edison's newly developed cells, and European sales rights.
Approximately 70 percent of the documents have been selected. The
items not selected include letters and telegrams regarding Deutsche Edison
executive committee and board meetings, the minutes of one executive
meeting, and documents that duplicate information in selected items.
THOMAS A. EDISON, President. W. S. MALLORY, Vice-President. Secretary-Treasurer
EDISON CHEMICAL WORKS.
TELEPHONE “1086 BLOOMFIELD. "
Mr. W. E. Gilmore,
Edison Phono, Wks.,
Orange, 11. J.
Dear Mr. Gilmore:-
Silver Lake, N. J.,
Jan. 6, 1908V
ijy
R n. C E i V I
JAM 7 IP""
li
Enclosed X send you a statement of our account with the
Deutsche Edi son-Akkumulatoren Company, showing the amount of
material, and th^/Cotal value by monthstof Nickel and Iron Mix we
have shipped them.
We trust that \
long.
Enclosure:
Statement.
JVM- EM.
an get this matter straightened ou.t before
/
Yours very truly,
Edison Chemical, Works.
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1
[ENCLOSURE]
Silver Lake, N, J,, .
[ENCLOSURE]
Jan. 27, 1908.
S. Bergmann, Esq.,
23/32 Oudenarderstrasse,
Berlin, N., Germany.
My dear Bergmann:
Your cable to the Edison Storage Battery Co.,
reading as follows;
^••Oan you send a few samples of new niokel-flake tube Battery?
was naturally referred to me, ub they vjere unable to do anything
with it. I cabled you in answer thereto to-day as follows:
"Will send sample first new cells when completed."
I have not as yet completed any of the new type oells
and therefore am not in a position to send you new oells at the
present ti#e, nor oan I say at this wilting when' they will he
finished. As soon as they are, however, a sample will he for¬
warded to you. This is all that I oan say to you at the present
time.
Youtb very truly,
■mcL Ar~
^kv&cluLC*
Note attached letter from Mr. Parshall, which I have
Juot reoeived. I hardly know what reply to make to it. You told
me that he was mistaken about Bergmann furnisblrg the new typo
cell with cylindrical tubes. However, I want to answer the
letter fully, and wish, therefore, you would give me the data to
enable mo to do so; or, if you would prefer to write direct to
him, all well and good.
l/27/o 8. W. E. Gilmore.
[ENCLOSURE]
I will be glad, to have, at. yoOr convenience, some..—
information as to the progress made in getting out the improved
Edison cell. Baylor, has recently been to Berlin and made
arrangements with Bergmann whereby he can procure a certain
number for use on the Mercedes electric car. The price paid
was £2 per cell of 180 ampere hour capacity. Bergmann did not
give any guarantee with the battery, but, from his statements,
Baylor reached the conclusion that, with reasonable care, the
battery might be expected to have a very long life. Baylor
said Bergmann has his manufacturing arrangements in very good
shape and feels that he has made various minor improvements in
the tools, developed at Orange. The battery that Bergmann is
proposing to supply Baylor with is of the improved type. I
[ENCLOSURE]
W E- GilD10re> Es(l- - 2 - Jan. 9th> 1908.
judge Bergmann is sanguine as to the success' of the battery
in competition with the lead battery and is getting ready to
manufacture on a large scale. Any information you can give me
will be much appreciated.
With kind regards, X remain.,
Yours sincerely,
Deutsche
€dison~ jfikkumulatoren-Company
Q- m. b. 7j.
Bank-Conic: _ m
Deutsche Dank, Berlin.
Ve/egramm- JIdresse:
€disoncell.
femspreek-jtnse/iluss:
Jtmt 2, Jfo. 873.
»■ & e. eodc (v± u. s± edition;
and Xleber's Code used.
k/ki,
Mr. W. 0 i l m o r a , General Manager,
c./O. Edison Storaga Battery Co.,
0 r it n g o, lr.J.
Bear Sir,
We are in receipt of your favor of January the 24th.,
written to our Birector general Mr. Borgmann, and beg to state , that the
latter is not at the preoent in Berlin and will return in about two or
three weeks. Ab 30011 a8 Mr. Berfpaann returna, we uhall give him your
letter, that he may an oner you peroonally. Regarding the payment mentioned
in your letter, we beg to say, that we are ourselves at the present
time very short of funds having for three years up to thin time made no
money, but only spent largo sums. Of the actio maiiB, which we have got
from Silver lake - ' only a small part has been used, moBt of it being
Seri m J2., den. 1908
Bronthelmerstr. 33-38.
in stock.
My dear Gilmore:
Yours of Pet). 17th X have fecifttfd and iU I(U news
of Johnny Randolph's sudden death has given me a great shppk. da
was. a very fine man and his suicide can only, as you say, fe# attributed
to temporary insanity. I hope that his wife and children have not got
to suffer for a support, as he has been with kdlsCW long enough to
lay a few dollars aside. If, however, hie Wife and children he in
need and there should he a collection necessary, % 11111 gladly contri¬
bute my share.
I thank you £or your cablegram that Idi eon’s illness is not
of a serious ohmitkier and that his life l'p not in pphger, and X
sincerely hd^Chat he will have a fp#0$y ffd
.yy^at progress are you making with. HMt POP factory for
the Bakery ? Almost another year hap . eUpSpCt j Since X was over there
last and evidently no progress made.
'.BERGMANN ELECTRICAL WORKS (machine department).
- 2 -
¥. E. Gilmore, Es<i. , Orange U. J.
I cabled a few weeks ago, to send me, if possible, one or two cells
of the new battery, about which Edison has written me, that he would
be able to turn out 60 oelle per Day in December last, and the reply
oame very short and not to be misunderstood, that I will get some
batteries, as soon as they were ready. This is, of course, not very
encouraging news.
Are you likely to come over to Europe before very long ?
Should this be the case, I hope that I will be abM this time to meet
you, but you must let me know a few weeks before, ifcttn you expect
to be here, so that I can make arrangements to see you here in Berlin,
or anywhere elBo in Europe.
Hoping that you and your family are enjoying the best of
health, I am with best wishes
Deutsche
€dison~ j/Ikkumulatoren ~ Company
£*. m. b. tj.
Deutsche Bonk, J)er/in.
My dear Gilmore, | '
After returning from my trip to the south 1 received
today your letter of January 24th stating the amount which the
"Deutsche Edison Akkumulatoren Company" ows the "Chemical Works" arid
"Edison Storage Battery Co." I immediately cabled you:
Edison, Orange N.J.
Have sent today on account Edisoncell
sixthousand Dollars.
The "Deutsche Edison-Akkumulatoren-Company" will send
' sum in a check of the "Chemical. forks".
T)eutsche
€dison -j/Jkkumulatoren ~ C ompany
Q. m. b.
gank-Gonto :
J)eutsche Bank, i?er//Vi.
fernsprech-Jtnschhss:
Jhnt 2, Jfe. 873.
■ft, £. e. Code fl& u. 5>± Gdilior
and Xiebetyfofc “sed.
March 6th 1908
W.E. Gilmore, Esq.,
Orange, N.J,
My dear Gilmore:
On the January the 8th I wrote a letter to Mr. Edison
a copy of which I enclose. In his answer to this letter, which is
dated January the 23rd Mr. 'Edison does not say anything about my
question regarding the permission to sell Edison batteries in Europe
and Great Britain until December 31st 1908 or longer. As I suppose,
Edison has overlooked my question and, in view of his present illness,
I beg you to take this matter in hand and write me , whether I can have
the permission for selling Edison batteries in Europe and Great Britain
prolonged for at least an other year, yffhe present rights expiring in
July 1908. As I take it from Mr. Edison's latest letters it will ntt
be possible to start a new plant for manufacturing Edison cells in Eng¬
land or elsewhere in Europe, for say about at least one year and
therefore it would interfere with no ones ri^its if the Deutsche Edison-
Akkumulatoren- Company G.m.b.H. is permitted to sell in Great Britain
and Europe for one year longer, the cells, manufactured in Germany.
Deutsche Edison- AccumuJatoren- Company G.m.b.H
- 2 -
W.E. Gilmore, Esq.,.
Orange, N.J.
On the other hand it is very important for me, to have Edison' s per-
mission for an other year, as, in view of the hi$i price, at which we
must sell the present type H, we shall never be able to make any
business in Germany alone.
Thanking you in advance for you kind efforts, I am
9
Dear Sir:
ffe herewith beg to infoxm you, that we have sold, until
December 31st 19Q7, 1344 cells type H. 27. According to our con¬
tract with Mr. Edison of September 29th 1905 we have to pay a
royalty for each cell type H. 27, of 91 cents, that means for the
said 1344 cells the sum of 1223,04 Dollars, which amount we have
placed to Mr. Edison' s credit.
Enel.
[ENCLOSURE]
C
o p y
Jan. 8th 1908
Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
New - Jersey ,U.S. A.
My dear Edison:
I am in receipt of your very interesting letter and
am very pleased to hear the good ne ws with regard to the new battery,
which is most encouraging.
I am also very glad to hear that you are experimenting
with a special new cell having a still higher capacity than the other
cells, and trust that the results will prove your hopes to be justified.
I have oarefully noted your remaps vrith regard to the
Bismuth question and am at once having investigations made in the
proper quarters and will let you have as full information as I can
possibly obtain regarding this at the earliest possible moment.
I have written you several times asking you to kindly
send me some flake, but apparently this has been overlooked at your
end, as up to the present nothing has come to hand. I am very anxious
to habe some of the nickel flake that you are now using for the new
type "A* cell, as I wish to proceed with the manufacturing processes.' •
I should be much obliged therefore if you would let me have a new pounds
of this flake and in order to expedite matter/splease send it by mail.
Of course, if you can send me a larger quantity of the flake, ofi fact
as much as you can spare, the better I shall like it.
[ENCLOSURE]
- 2 -
Therefore is another pount which I wish to raise, i.e.
whether you could not see your way clear to extend the permission
you gave me to sell Edison batteries in Europe and Great Britain
until say Dec. 31st 1908, or even longer, if possible, as there will
be no possibility of manufacturing being taken up in other countries
here before the expiration of that period.
The tubes I promised to send you in my last letter are
now forwarded under separate cover and after they have come to hand,
I should like to hear what you think about them.
?ith best wishes,
j Yours sincerely
Berlin, rt.
ii*h pr %»&a
W. B. Gilmore, Esq.^
c/o. The Edison HeftUC j$o*ur4njt <?0j
Orangey 4T*w Jersey*
Ifr dear Gilmore: L,*6"’1 Mgr s 0ffice
Many thanks for yours of J*eb. 88th and 1 jo»i 17 i***'-^:
to learn that Bdiaon will soon gat ovar his illness and wa dll
trust that ha will he himself again hsfore Tory long*
Mr. Riahl, Mr. Buhl a r and Hr « Bagar ( ? ) Bata Wstoai^O
assistant called here to-day and I took them dll round the Yafttety
and also showed tham round the Storage Battery Pwjjrkoiy and they WlH
via doubt report to you on their return to Bow Yorkf BerhapS the! ailJL
ha able to give you a few beneficial points regarding BAmifdttufjtog
of the Battery, which Z hope, you will soon to# able to turn Ojit in
gjumtitias.
We are only progressing very ‘Wary <0J(|OWly and are aw#i,ting
the further developments of the Mew Battap^ '** have st&rtdd making
j»l#|»l~flake , in vary small quantities of ^fcOtirta^ tout
should our efforts be crowned with sueedJfcg oA IriMl i*4)ddi*td£jr
enlarge the plant.
- 1-
BERGMANIM ELECTRICAL WORKS (machine department).
Thomas A. 1(113011. (2) 3/20/08.
what I am talking about. Please return this conmunioation and
letter enclosed in envelope which is also enclosed.
Yours very truly,
/
S. Bergmann, 3oq.,
23/32 Oudenarder Str . ,
Berlin, K., Germany.
My dear Bsrgmann:
I duly received your letter of March 5th, hut I
have been unable to answer ir before inasmuch as I could not see
Mr. Ed la on to diacuso the question of the extension of the con¬
tract made between you granting permission to soil Edison batteries
in Europo and Great Britain after July 1908. Personally, I am
opposed to any such extension. I took the matter up with Mr.
Edison by. 'writing him at Port Myers and he has 3ent back word to
me that he douB not desire to extend the contract beyond the time
above indicated.
Yours very truly,
weg/tw
General Manager.
[FROM WILLIAM E. GILMORE]
April 20, 1008,
G. Croydon Harks, Esq.,
London, England.
Dear' Mr. Marks:
I enclose you herewith, copies of certain communi¬
cations addressed to Kr. Edison raid myself, together with copy of
letter addressed to one B. \'/. Gonin, 20 Coythail Are., London, E.C.,
and the prospectus referred to. It looks to me as though V. N.
Stewart is mixed up in thin situation, unci, in addition to this
Being looked after by Mr. Bcrgnsnn , Hr. Edison desires that you
go into the matter most carefully and see v:hat you can find out
.about it, and if you find that they arc endeavoring to use Mr.
Edison's name, directly or indirectly, in connection with the
proposed Cab Company, you are authorised to immediately take steps
to etop the use of Mr. Edison's name in connection therewith.
I should be glad to hear from you on this situation just as soon
as you have found out the condition of affairs.
Yours very truly.
WEG/lW
President,
[ATTACHMENT]
Edison Storage Battery Co.
Telephone t 908 Orange.
ORANGE, NEW JERSEY April 10, 1908.
t— te»ft
MscSVf " T i*-"-''"' ■‘'w'
.. .2
Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Port Myers, Florida,
Dear Mr. Edison:
I enclose herewith original letter, dated March
27th, addressed to me, original letter addressed to you, dated
March 25th, copy of letter to B. W. Gonin, dated March 23rd and
the prospectus referred to by Bergmann. I have not answered
these communications. I do not know whether you want Mr. Marks
to follow this up further or not. of course, if Bergmann is
attending to it, all well and good, but at the same time it seems
to me that your interests should be protected by having Marks
look after it as well. If you agree with ms as to this, please
return the papers in attached envelope, and I have left instruc¬
tions to send them at once to Mr. Marks so that he can look after
it. On the other hand, if you consider that Bergmann has covered
the situation completely, all well and good. I have not written
Bergmann inasmuch as I do not want to do so until I have your
instructions.
Yours very truly.
[ATTACHMENT]
Machine Department
juot. #, E. Gilmore, Esq.,
Bnn/R. | c/o. The Edison Hfg. Co,,
Orange, Hew Jersey,
My dear Gilmore:
Enclosed please find a very interesting letter
I have addressed to Mr, Edison with enclosures, which kindly hand
to him personally, as Boon as his condition permits of it. I did
not Bend this direct, as I feared, that Edison's illness would, for
the time "being, prevent himtfrom receiving any mail, or that he
may perhaps he away in one of the Besorts as a reconvalescent.
Kindly see to it that my letter reaches him, as I should
not like the information contained therein to come to him from any
other source, so that he may possibly think, that 1 am connected
with this Bcheme in some, way or other.
As you will see from the enolosed copy of letter dddreiedA
to a certain Mr. Gonin, I have written these people in SHglhhd a
pretty strong letter. This is the greatest impudenoa t have COsM
across for a great many years and 1 have expressed my opinion fthotit
it in my letter to them.
[ATTACHMENT]
BERGMANN ELECTRICAL WORKS (machine department).
»»-
Truotlng you aro in good health and hoping to hoar Trow
you Boon, I am with heat rogarde
Anl: X Sohraihen an MittOh
1 Proapakt
1 Briefkopia.
[ATTACHMENT!
Machine Department
tmi. Thomas A. Edison, Es<i,,
Bnn/ R | Llewellyn Park,
Hew Jersey, U*S,A,
% dear Edison :
I enclose herewith a prospectus of a company which
it is proposed to fora in London entitled "The Bdison-Bergmann Elec¬
tric Cah Co, Ltd." and I think you will agree that this represents
a very fine specimen of English gall. Nobody was more surprised than
myself to receive this prospeolusTseeing that the promoters are abso¬
lutely unknown to me, and that they even had not approached me before¬
hand concerning the formation of this company, nor endeavored, to
obtain my sanation to use my name.
It is evident on the faoe of it, that these people vtftt
to make capital out of . your name and reputation And boded thereon
to rope lh a number of ignorant investors*
am you win .«e« from the WieiowMt tepy of the letter,
which I have written to HT, ftfltift} the dfr tin pVWsfrtefe, X ft£*i
nipped this .scheme in the bud add tK# U*d Ot
[ATTACHMENT]
BERGMANN ELECTRICAL WORKS (machine department).
- A -
Thomae A. Wieon , 8*9.
the name of Edison and Bergpanw in mw .foPd ^hgtseever in connection
with this company and I truat that this ®rqdqsdi,BB •!» W part Will
have your distinct approval.
Bor your information I would say, that quite a nv/i jbpr of
these electric cah enterpriaeo are now Doing propagated and I have,
in several instances Deen approached, with a view "to assist in
floating same, Dut I have always refused to take part in any of these
schemes in any way, and I think you will agree that I was quite
right in so acting.
After perusal of the above mentioned prospectus, kindly re¬
turn same to me , so that 1 may have actual evidence in ay possession
should it prove neoessary for me to take action against these
people.
The news of your sudden illness and operation had been quite
an unpleasant surprise and shook to my family and myself. The last
reports.; from Mr. Gilmore are, however, more favorable and we were
allglad to hear that. you were on the path of recovery again, and T
hope that by the time this letter reaches you, you are quite your¬
self again. I have written Mrs. Edison a letter expressing ouT
sympathy. -
We are making very good headway here with the nsw battfcry »
although the old type seems to give pdWNtt ofaiy the
price being still too high* *# M W Wl to Wing
the cost down somewhat vefjr sho^tiju
With best wish** to Wtt. JUitt* dn^yourswif «M. nUbim
a speedy recovery, Xi alb \| Tf®*’? truly*
[ATTACHMENT!
March 23rd 1908
Einsohra iben - Registered.
Bnn/R. B. W. Cfonin, Esq.,
20, cop than Abenuo,
London E. C,
Dear Sir:
I have your letter of tha 2l£it inst. and must express my
profound surprise that you ohould have the audacity to propese to’
use the name of '"Bergmahn" and of ''Edison” in connection with the
eleotrio oah achemo which you are promoting!*, without* first having
the common courtesy of first enquiring whether X or Mr. Edison
would he liable to raise any objection;
While on thiB subject, I must inform you that I have neither
the right, nor the intention to forward any schemes of this nature,
by the use, or rather misuse of my own or Mr. Edioon's name, and that
from the outBet, X diBolaim any connection whatsoever, both ih n*y
own and -Hr. Ediuon's name, with this company promoting scheme, and
neither do X, directly, or indireotly, propose to have anything to
do with it.
- 1 -
[ATTACHMENT]
IS. IF. C-onln, Biiti.
In view hereof, I uniat moot ournoat.ly ro^uoot you to rrith-
ftraw tho nurae "Soi-gramr.” ami "BAinon” from the, prospectus. you intend
to ionite, and I oonflm ray to-day's telegram to thin effect, reading
"forbid absolutely ubu of muaau of Bdinon and Bergsmnn
in connection with your oloc'^W'Ottb company in any
f cm trhtttuoever confirm by wire"
and ara now awaiting your reply that you will not in strict aooordanoe
therewith or othonviuo I nJiall bo compelled , to ny regret , to take
stop o to protect nyealf.
I aa very nueh nurpriced that you should again approach ran
regarding tfta uu u;tion of lumufacturing oaro and the batteries in
England, considering _that I have informed. 7:r. Stewart over and over
again that. I only have tho right to soil the- Edition Battery in Eng-
land for a limited period, but not tho right to manufacture Boms
in Ore at Britain at all.
Tho right to snanui’aotura in England lino oonnlotoly in Mr.
Edition's! handu and duos not concern -we in any way, end I should be
obliged if you would take note of thio fact onco and for fill.
further under those obnditiomi I could, not arid would not,
f crone notion t , entertain the notion 'uf' manufacturing either oaro or
battariou in England, ao that further dir.cuar.ion on thie point
would be fruitlooa. _
Kindly acknowledge receipt of this letter and oblige
Youro truly,
Your noto I have received with enclosed letter
from Parshall concerning Edison accumulators and the manufacture
of your battery in England.
There ia certainly some risk of your losing your patents for
England, as according to the new English Patent Law, articles for
which patents are granted, must he manufactured in England within
one year .
As your battery is, no doubt, going to be a commercial
success in the near future, in spite of all the talk and ridiculing
on the part of different experts and competitors, I would suggest,
in order to retain your patents for England, to hare sufficient
capital put up by your English licensees to start a small plant
in that country. j
Should you not feel inclined to put this plant up yourself,
I would be willing to do so for you on any scale you may desire, j
^^^GMANN ELEctricAL WORKS (machine department).
- 2 -
Thome A. Edison, Esq,
I think it ie aheolutely essential that energetic steps are taken
in thia direction in order to firmly secure your English patents,
I ■** convinced that the lead battery people and others are only
waiting for a chance to step in and make your battery for themselves.
To erect a plant which pays, having a daily output of. from
about 80 - 100 cells only « 120.000.- to * 150.000.-- would be
necessary, this figure, of course, not including buildings and power
station, and it would take about 6-8 months to get the necessary
tools and special machinery ready, so that the stipulations of the
English Patent law can be easily complied with.
We are making very good progress with our plant here and
in the near future, I can send you a report as to what we are doing
on this side and how we stand, which X hope will be to your entire
satisfaction.
Awaiting your reply, I am
yours vary truly,
[ENCLOSURE]
B © r lj I n. N. July 27th 1908
Machine Department
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CABLEGRAM
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NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH COMPANY
Sept. 12, 1908.
S. Bergmann, Esq. ,
23/24 Oudenarder StrasBe,
Bei’lin, N., Germany.
Dear Hr. Bergmann:
Mr. "Edison is at present on the Pacific Coast
and is not expeoted to return until next month, so that I have
answered your recent cablegrams on the Bubjeot of the "battery
patents in Great Britain.
I have consulted with various people familiar with these
matters, including our London attorney, Mr. Marks, arid I think we
are all right. The new British Patent Act does not make it
absolutely oompulsory for a patentee to oommence manufacture in
Great Britain. The act was designed principally to protect British
manufacturers against German competition. It was considered unfair
to give a foreigner protection in Groat Britain when the patented
goods were not manufactured there. If we were manufacturing the
battery here and shipping to Groat Britain so as to completely
fill the demand we would be subject to the operation of the law.
Everyone with whom I have talked agrees with me that sinoe our work. .
in this country and Germany is practically experimental we could
not be expeoted to start a merely experimental faotory in Groat
Britain. Of course, as soon as Mr. Edison fails that the
battery is an assured suocess we must take steps very rapidly
9/12/08.
S. Bergmann.
NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH COMPANY
with the British factory. You understand that under the new law
patents can he violated only after a formal contest, and the
Controller before whom the oase is heard is given absolute dis-
cression to decide whether or not the patentee in each oase has
been acting in good faith.
With best wishes, believe me,
Yours very truly,
pbd/iww
President,
J)eutsche
€dison- j/ikkumulatoren- Company
Beujsche yank, Berlin.
telegramm-Jtdresse:
m. b. Tj.
Serin Jtt, fa.l# 16th 19°8-
j)ronthelmerstr . 35-38.
A. Bdison, Bsq. ,
Orange, Hew Jersey
Hy dear Itdioon:
With reference to your letter of July 30th I
immediately engaged a ohomiBt and will Bend thie man over to you
«,t the beginning of next month. The name of the young man iB
Hr* Harold, who is the eon of a hanker connected with the fim
Of Morgan, Harjea & Cie. in Baris.
Dr, Harold haa worked a cone ider able time in the labo¬
ratory of Professor Dr. Boerster of Dresden, Saxony, who hae,
«B you may remember, worked a number of years on your batteries
find who was your expert when fighting the lead accumulator people.
S think that Dr. Harold will wery soon be able to learn from you
in the Chemical Works all the details about manufacturing the
active material here.
Together with Dr. fterold X am sending my Bngineer,
Hr. Berens, who was with me and studied several weeks in your
battery shop in February and March 1806. Dr, Harold is to
stay over there as long as necessary in order to become tho¬
roughly acquainted with the manufacturing of active material.
Borenz goes over with him mainly to introduce Dr. Herold and
also to learn how far we can make use of the Improvements
J)eutsche Edison -jQkkumulatoren~ Company
g. m. b. J?.
- 8 -
ThoteaB A. Bdieon, Beq. , Orange J,
you ha»« ndf in tha meantime with the new type A» Tht nan
!*>u gU* ma in your fetter of July 30th about the new typ, la vety
iditefWrt^im' an* I hare no doubt that the new cell wiUfc h* a e#o*%
#1»«bo tufrn Dr. Harold and Berana oyer to the prbper
PfVU, «o that they can at once gat all the Information thay
a«a*.
»th teat wishes
cablegram reading:
•investigate Sick proposed factory wire fully details
Edison on Pacific coast English patent situation covered
well as possible cannot go ahead with English manufacture
until absolutely certain of American plans"
but since a letter from Sick to me has come to hand from Canada
and it would appear that the reports concerning the faotory being
built in England were antirely unfounded and merely a piece of bluff
on the part of our English friends. As soon as Edison returns, X
should be obliged if you would have ay various Important letters
replied to, such as those of July 29th and Sept. 11th.
With kind regards
IK
Tours very truly,
A I
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Mr, Edison: .
• ’ Hegarding the attached letter from Bergmann, I find that
the contract of September 29, 1905, with the German Co. specif¬
ically provides that the German Company is to exploit the battery
not only in Germany, but also in Austria and Hungary. The agree¬
ment alBo grants the license for Austria and Hungary as well as
for Germany. Under the circumstances, there would be no need
of forming a separate company as Mr, Bergmann suggests, and as a
matter of fact the rights of the German Company would be invaded
by doing so. If Bergmann thinks that manufacture in a small way
Bhould be started in Austria it will only be necessary for the
German oorapany to take oare of that matter. I think, however,
he has been wrong]. y advised as to the Austrian law on the subject
of working. In Austria the working requirement is not compulsory
and the patent does not have to be worked umtil a formal applica¬
tion to have the patent revoked is made to the Patent Office.
When that application is made, the Patent. Office than gives the
patentee a reasonable time in which to Commence manufacture,
in this respect the Austrian law is the same as the new British
law. Of course it may be that someone has applied to the Austrian
patent office to have our patentsrevoked, and this may be what
Bergmann has in mind. Shall I write him? If bo, pleaae
return the letter,
BLD/lWW P. L. D.
9/29/08.
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November 16th 1908.
Thomas A. Edison, Esq., (\^fi S'
X have your letter of the 4th inst. enclosing
letters from Sir Clifton Rohinson and Mr. Martin, which X
^0U Jna^ take it from me that whenever you have the
/^Battery in final commercial form, Sir Ernest Cassel and Messrs.
Morgans will he ready to consider finance with you. I think I
know Sir Ernest Cassel as well, as most people and I. can say
straight away from long experience that he is not given to
expressing opinions of the kind made mention of in sir Clifton
Robinson's letter, nor is he in the habit of entertaining people
who repeat any observations he may make.
I do not think Robinson is in a position to iUmish
any finance for the battery nor do I think he knows, enough
about batteries or engineering matters generally to be of the
slightest assistance in putting the battery on the market.
T. A. Edison, Esq. - 2 - Nov. l6th, 1908.
If in the final event Messrs . Cassel and Morgan should
not care to finance the perfected battery, there will be no
difficulty in forming a powerful group to go on with the battery.
If England by itself were to be dealt with I should say, failing
the support of Messrs. Cassel and Morgan, it would be a sub¬
ject for most serious consideration aB to whether or not
you would do the whole business yourself. If, however, a
general European arrangement is to be entered into, it seems
to me the influence of a strong group of bankers is very much
to be desired.
I am greatly interested in what you say in regard to
the application of the battery to the Metropolitan Railway
service. 45 watt hours per ton mile is a better result than
has yet been obtained in any traction installation with: which
I am acquainted, except the Central London Railway, where we
hao heavy trains and a three per cent down grate out of all
stations. Erom my own experience I should say 60 to 80
watt hours per ton mile according to track conditions and speed
would be a good commercial result. However, supposing the
battery will last six years on the 45 watt hours per ton mile
basis it will sweep the field.
As stated in my previous communication whenever
T. A. Edison, Esq* - J - Nov. l6th, 1908.
you have the new battery in shape I will he glad to carry
out a commercial trial over here.
If you are inclined to go further into the Robinson
business you might enquire as to just how he proposes to
apply the Edis cn battery and whether he himself will find
£50,000 towards establishing the business. My own idea 1b
that Robinson would like to get his name associated with
yours in the press. TniB might be very useful to him,
but I do not see that it would be of any assistance to you.
Yours very truly,
■' /' ,/
///
[ENCLOSURE]
MARTIN Eoitorial Rooms w* WEAVER
Electrical World
239 WE8T 39th STREET, NEW YORK
T. A. Edison, E:?q., ^ . f\
Orange, N. J. *
Dear Mr* Edison:
I got baok to the offioe in time enough last nieht
after my interview with you to write' Sir Clifton Robinson informing him
that I had had a ohat with you, and that you had promised to write him
on the subjeot of the ^afistrfT/nthin a day or two, whioh probably mea' s
the next mail. I am muon obliged to you for giving prompt attention
to this matter, as you can see that Sir Clifton Robinson keeps up the •
pressure, so to speak.
It is curious that we were speaking yesterday afternoon of your
representative Sir Ernest Cassel, about whom the inclosed item appears
in the paper. He must have been dining with the king at the very time
we were talking about him.
Yours truly, ,
Editor.
Ootobor 3d, 1908,
[ENCLOSURE]
H. F. PARSHALL, M. INST. C.E
T.C .Martin Esq..
"Electrical World",
239 West 39th Street.
HEW YORK.
Bear Mr Martin.
With reference to your exceedingly hind letter, I had some friedds'l
dining with me the other evening, one of whom atated, that he had been j
spending a week end with Sir Ernest Cassel and that during the course of j!
conversation the discussion turned upon the Edison battery, its merits 1
and prospects. My informant assured me that Cassel expressed his opinion
in no uncertain tone, that the battery as at present sort to be exploited
by Edison, was worthless for all commercial purposes, and that he has been {'
furnished quite recently with a report from a German Engineer who stated
that there was little or nothing new in the component parts of the battery j
itself , and that a similar one had been unsuccessfully exploited by a
manufacturing firm in Frankfort some 10 years ago. |i
Knowing that I waB interesting myself in this particular method
of traction my friend vouchsafed me this piece of gossip for what, it was
worth, feeling that the knowledge Sir Ernest held and had so unequivocally
expressed as to Mr Edison's invention might be useful to me. personally.
[ENCLOSURE]
Of course I am not at liberty to mention names, nor can I
vouch for the absolute accuracy of the statement then made, but I am
confident that my friend would not have reported a conversation of this
character, without being fairly sure of his ground.
Should the decision of Sir Ernest Cassel be correct it would
naturally also influence that of Mr Pierpont Morgan, and bearing in mind
the opinion expressed in your former letter that with both these gentleme
out of the business I should come next, the information I have received
seems sufficiently important to justify my writing you with a view of
your possibly gleaning from Mr Edison what the real position is at the
present moment as I of course have ay own niews and should not in any
case attach undue importance to a statement that if made as suggested
may have had its own special purpose to serve.
You will, I know, observe the necessary discretion in using
this letter as beyond the friendly after dinner statement 1 have mentione
I have nothing more oonclusive to go upon and it v/ould X need hardly say,
be extremely dangerous to mention names in such a connection, whether
the statement vouchsafed be true or not.
It would not of course take Mr Edison long to discover the
real facts for himself and as I regard every moment just now of importune
I have ventured to write you this letter.
With warmest regards and best wishes to Mr Me Graw,
Very sincere]
3*, Boulevaki) Haussmann
PARIS, le 31 Dicembre 1908
M
Nous avons l’honneur de vous informer qu’ii notre grand et vif
regret notre Sieur JOHN H. HARJES, en raison de son Age, se retire
de notre Socidtd, ii partir de ce jour, apres plus de 63 annees d'activite
dans les affaires.
Notre Societd sera continuee par les soussignds sous la meme
raison sociale
MORGAN, HARJES 8c O
et dans les memes conditions que par le passe.
Veuillez bien en
salutations empressdes.
prendre note
H. H. HARJES.
H. P. HEROLD.
J. P. MORGAN & C", New- York.
DREXEL & C\ Philadelphie.
1908. Battery - Storage - Metals (D-08-05)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to
Edison's interest in obtaining metals such as bismuth, cobalt, and lithium for
possible use in his alkaline storage battery. The correspondents include W. R.
Grace & Co., Edwin V. Machette, E. Schaaf-Regelman, Slipp-Butler Co., and
other dealers in ores and minerals. There are also letters from individuals
possessing information about sources and prices of bismuth.
Approximately 20 percent of the documents have been selected. Among
the items not selected are letters from individuals and companies informing
Edison that they have no bismuth or offering metals in which he had no
interest. Some of these letters contain routine Edison marginalia. Also not
selected are reports regarding bismuth deposits in Australia, Argentina, Chile,
and Mexico; and correspondence from ore and mineral dealers that duplicates
information in selected material.
Subject' Publications
Prof. Thomas A. Edison,
Glen/nont, Llewellyn Park,
Orange , N . J .
In reply to your recent letter:
I send you, under separate cover, four little pamphlets
bearing on the production of bismuth for the years 1901, 1902,.
1905 and 1906. These papers are excerpts from the general vol¬
ume of Mineral Resources for the years mentioned. I trust that
you may find in them some item of interest bearing on your re¬
searches in bismuth.
I will have sent to you report on Mineral Resources
for the year 1887. In it you will find a paper giving a partial
list of ores, minerals and mineral substances of industrial im¬
portance, arranged alphabetically by states and territories.
While the information contained in the list is not up to date,
it is probable that it may be of service to you. I regret that
the Survey has published no special report bearing on the oc¬
currence of bismuth in the United
Very respectfully.
E. V. MACHETTE,
Exporter attb HJmportrr
D LIBERTY STREET
New York, Jan. 4tli,
Thos.
tu
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Hooking rip same
L<-Ll,r £ ('
needs . Will
Edison, Esq.
Orange, N. J.
My Dear Sir:-
In reply to your favor ’of 2:
oros which you require, I would say that
and trust that I shall be able to supply your
you kindly, therefore, advise me about what quantity and
quality you could use, and also state if you could make use
of Metallic Bismuth, ^ of which I have on hand only 260 lbs.
which I can sell at §2.00 per lb. X have also 11 lbs. of
Cadmium oxide, at §2.00 per lb, 1,000 lbs. of Green Chrome
Oxide at 50^ per lb., 8 lbs. of Cerittn) Nitrate, at §5.00
per lb., 500 lbs. of /unerican Thorium Oxide, at §5.00 per
lb., 100 lbs. of /unerican Thorium Nitrate, at §5.00 per
lb., and 5,000 lbs. of shot nickel, at 40^ per lb.
If you can use any^ or all these, please advise me,
and oblige.
Yours truly;
E.- V. MACHETTE,
Exporter mii> Sintpartcr
0 LIBERTY STREET
Ilevf York, Jan. 8th, 1008.
Thoa. A. Edison, Esq., (pV •"'"
Orange, Hew Jersey. f^w,£W>uw| }^c. hn^c-cy v <-*.(?■£/
Hy Dear Sir:- -** . ^ ^
\^,rx <=hr y 'j>*w ff im iCG (r>e Ka
t I do not understand why_you cannot
O iu^ lt.L'<rt w LoTcTL iu ~ZZL
|c>- ^<5
In reply to jyour'" ftivor * o f the 7th inst,
I would say that
^ . * > * *>*** * « UFvCCC ( v. - - - =.
l selling a part or
i large lot at the same price, for shipment abro^cU_.„.I^-
•e you a regular supply, and will tryjio do it as cheaply .
(SZ*~u^Z~C-GL CC'L -C'^ <3- f sr€s hL\
possible, if you will kindly advise .me as to the. price you \
) willing to pay, and the" quantity Vou'aro likely ^o'usl* ..... —
^fccoSfcfe.^s'^S.^h.'lf named ^uo you. —
Oobalt, which I talked to you ab»t s'ome time ago, 1^
i^Snlab y^ a *"oar‘£oad ]£er
jXan -
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cheaply
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monthly, for the different i
rr
wpuld say that I am prepare!
month, of either or dull of the following analysis
y/:l — IS# Oobalt, 10# nickel, 40# Arsenic,
#g__14# Oobalt, 2# Nickel
#3—15# Cobalt, 10# Nickel
J/4 _ 5.44# Cobalt, 25# Nickel, 34# Arsenic, and 4# Iron.
Kindly advise me what price you can pay for the Met¬
allic contents of either or all of these, and oblige,
United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company
it city January 9'’r,19'
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J.tr, Thomas] A, Edition ,
Orange, Hew Jersey.
Dear Sir:
BISMUTH. • ’ .
Referring to your favor of January 2nd, addressed
to our plant at Grasselli, Indiana, we heg to state that we
are just at present starting a process on our slimes, hy
means of which we expect to recover the bismuth as metallic
bismuth. However, the amount produced will not be large,
certainly not over 2,000 lbs. a month.
In this connection would state that in Salt Lake
we have made it an object to follow up ores containing bis¬
muth, but the results have been very discouraging, and we
have not to date developed any t onnage ar ing.) bi smuth^ore .
Yours very truly,
HAP/B
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Orange, II. j
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oay re Bismuth ore, you abate that you cannot afford to pay a
price for ox^e which costa you more than $1.05 per lb., to recov¬
er the Metallic Bismuth* Hot knowing your expense of recovery,
I cannot very well figure the price you oan afford to pay for
the ore. Aa I wrote you, I have ten tons on hand, averaging
14# Bismuth, which 1 would like you to give me your best offer
for, and I will try to get it through. I have also gotten the
party owning the 4,000 lbs. of Bismuth ore, to agree to sell
same for $.70 per lb. You, of course, to pay for the gold con¬
tents .
Re the four analyses of Cobalt ore, which I sent you,
please make me the best offer for one or all of them, and I
think I will be able to supply your needs.
Awaiting an early reply, I am,
believe we are handling a larger quantity of bismuth ore
than anyone else in the UL S., and should you oars to disclose
your identity, possibly we can do some business.
YourB truly, ;
Slipp -Butler (
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31 NASSAU STREET.
MINERALS
AND
METALS
NEW YORK,
January 22nd, 1 _ IB(£-
ThomM A. Edison, Eaq.,
Orange, New Jersey.
Daar Ur. Sdieon:-
I aa in raoaipt of your latter of January 2lat I have
never thought of tha mat hod of mining to whioh you refey but will taka
pleasure in sanding your suggestion to our mine manager. I am not muoh
of a miner myaalf.
I am glad to learn that you are looking for Bismuth, bo-
oruo s that is one of tha rare minerals that I handle a Good deal of. I
c/Jfcrri^-
have two lots an roilte that I oan offer, namely} about twenty tons oontain-
ing as follows: 5 to 7$ aatallio Bismuth
70 to 80$ Lead
10 to 20 ounoes of silver
and about fifteen ton3 containing S3 follows:
7$ matallio Bismuth
40 ounoes of silver
,25 ounoae of gold
7 to 10$ Copper
all my Bismuth
you. Oan you
For the last three or four years X have baan exporting
ores, but I would lika very muoh to do soma business with
use either or both of the above lots and on about what basis7
Tours vary truly,
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©r? anil fHetal SrUittg Agents
45 BROADWAY
January 24, 1908-
Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
Orange, New Jersey.
Dear Sir:-
on January 18th wo wrote a letter to "Orion" c/o Eng. &
Mng. Journal, 505 Pearl St., City, regarding bismuth ore,
to which we have to-day received a reply from you. We ex¬
port large quantities of bismuth ore of approximately the follow¬
ing analysis:
Silver 42 ozs., gold .28 ozs. Bismuth 6%, copper 7%, wet assay.
We have some 60 tons of this material in route to New York at
the present time, which is unsold. We can supply regular
monthly quantities of this material and would be pleased to re¬
ceive an offer from you. We recently had -a lot to offer of
10 t0ns assaying: 15% bismuth, 13 ozs. silver, .24 ozs. gold,
4$ copper. A broker in this City by the name of Machette
stated to us that he of fenced you this lot, but as he was unable
to propose anything definite, the lot was sold. We also have
t^doffer a tonnage of 25 or 30 tons monthly assaying 4 ozs. gold,
40 ozs. silver,ia$ copper * 6 % bismuth, on which we would be
pleased to receive an offer. In your letter of Jan. 23rd,
Sr.IPP~BTJTL.ER COMPANY
©rp attD fttplal Srllimj Agpitte
you state you cannot use this material at the price set by the
Combination. In reply we beg to state we cannot sell to you
except at an advance over the Combination price, as they are willing
to take all we have to offer.
Yours truly.
SLIPP-BOTLER COMPANY
©re auD ffletul gfUing Agtnlu
JamuwiyFebruary 1,1908.
Mr. Thomas A. ISdlBon,
Orange, New ?er3oy .
. slr:_ tycst* wot keuv^kt niMO
. . ,v to (k£) ^ j srJL™*‘tz ^
~SBi 5110 y
Y/e are in receipt of your fav0r of the Slat yli^A-rr^rSnl^ _ 1 ,■ \
to ours of the 29th. In quoting you on bismuttt ore, although *•*
we did'not state so, we certainly did not contemplate any delivery ^
of a less quantity than 5 tone. Wo -are constantly exporting
this material which runs fairly even in grade. As far as we
know, it is the only reliable supply of bismuth ore in the country,
We are exporting a shipnont of 4C tens tc-day, and have another
40 ton shipment barreled and ready to go forward within the next
on the terms and conditions named in ours of the 29th, i
glad to hear from you on Monday or Tuesday, when we wil
We named you a pric<
export figures, that to i
i orddr for 1 ton, would hardly
slipp-Butler Coi
• Jl) ovOJtV’y .
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f ' lib*'* <E»b, p«»i«u unim.
laboratory of Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Dear Sir:-
I beg to advise that I can get hcild of V large' '
production of * . : . •
BISMUTH ORE. It, however, contains appreciable quantities of coppbr,
silver and gold., And the producer wants 'to be paid for these metals
as well as for the bismuth. The average analysis of the last carload
shipped has been as fbllbws r
18- 19#
3-6 #
14-16 oz. per ton
.2-. 5 oz. per ton-
Should an ore of this composition interest you, and should you be able,
to pay for all the metal values contained therein, I shall gladly fur¬
nish you with a sample of any desired quantity.
SILICATE OF POTASH. I am sending you by same mail sample of imported
silicate of potash in lump as well as powdered .form, which I can offer you
@ 5 f per lb. ex dock New York, duty paid for ship- .
ment of at least IO-15 tons at a time. The material
is packed in barrels, each holding approximately
I 500-6C0 lbs . .arid .gross weight to be paid for. Terms
j would be 75# of the value payable in exchange for
! dock receipt and clearance papers, balance to be paid
within 8 days after arrival of goods at your works.
Kindly advise whether you prefer one of these two grades to the silicate
of potash of gelatine consistence offered you in my letter of January 21,
and kinly favor me with your orders at your earliest convenience.
bismuth .
copper--- - -
silver -
gold -
CLYDE H. WILSON. Prmfcnt *) [) .1 FRANK L. WILSON, Sec. and Tleu,
JJ .
4 } Clifton Copper Belt Mining Company n i
■ = MINES IN =. — / |
Clifton Mining District, Tooele County, Utah
Rooms, 208 & 209,
69 East Third South St.
[r. Thomas A. Edison,
May 320 th. 1908. | go_
. I^LeC^ .'■£ MriA ._ (3 .
Dear Sir:- This Company lis producing an ore that 'could Qorob-
"tt? dt irts-r*-/ p c»m ^ 7
ahly not he duplicated in the United States, and for J which we are seeking' '
L^o-a *. *f T '\xfL
a market. We^have been referred to you hy Mr .H.M.McChesneJy ,TreaUi of the '
(R u^^ccrerf-i- &
Saint Louis Smelting and Refining CO. as being. in the market for Bismuth.
U*AjwY-«t^£«-cJS!rf U^i-tr^Qas g£* U i.Cc.
The ore from the Copper .Belt CO. has shown by analysis , carries, as follows.,
■* cfcd~ <d p imls. <x+ ^ —»
to Wit: Gold;$I5.00, Copper, 5. 69 «, Bismuth!, 12. 23 Tin,!. 59 Nickel ,.62 .
. A» c-p T€a G-CvA-^pv-k-*-
p-*^ &£vR_^-CQ,
ahly not he duplicated in the United States ,and forjwl
fc.ei-P'JSi A. rr^' tT~ I t&--g‘c
a market. We^have been referred to you by Mr.H.M.McChi
Erom another property in the
le same ne ihhtforho o d , the /Lucy L.M.& M.
ll. Mgr., we are able to snip a 'high grad
jLcPt — H — L^t>~‘-k-ctXCewv*r &.
is latter ore is very rich (uboth BismjjjJi
.07 ^ Bismuth and $3440.00 in Gold.! think
and Gold, running as high as 68.07 % Bismuth and $3440.00 in Gold.X think
... it. would be possible to get conplde^ able <?re .that^/oi^/d* rut^aO^st^ny
-Q=^See -jW
percent of Bismuth that you would require. The Bismuth is mostlX the Nat-
'tta. & Cevu> <rw Rjk-JU-a-*.
..iv.e and the Carbonate. If you„are.„in_ the .market for such ore. ,and would
TOct/l/v <5-'CR3^r ex-(? o-r^ Cu tJLO^
.iv.e and the Carbonate. If you. £
- state .y.our. requirements, we_ujpCjin._a._po.ssit ion to furnish vou-the-iore— in ou
^ X - :
- an?. it y „with in _a re a so nabl et ime.Sampl e s will he furn i she d you upon ireque s t I
Resy. Yours,
. E. V. MAOHETTE.
Expnrlcr trnii 3/mportcr,
OFFICE I 120 LIBERTY STREET,
metals
Mr. Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Orange, New Jersey.
My Dear Sir: -
May 23rd, 1908. )
3r-i
In reply to your favor of 28th ult., I would
say that on aooount of your illness, I did- not' wish to both¬
er you, but inasmuoh as you asked me to hunt up BISMUTH prop¬
erty for you, I have done so in several directions, and would
like to report from one of my prospeotors as follows:
"I have found two Bismuth properties, whioh I
herewith submit to you, one of whioh consists of two claims,
running lengthwide to the vein. The vein is about 18 inches
wide, and is impregnated, more or less, with BISMUTH SULPHIDE
It carries a little Gold and Silver, but the principal value
is BISMUTH. It is a fine prospect, but has never been devel¬
oped much. It carries on an average about 2$ Bismuth. The
price is $3,500. The second proposition consists of five
claims. The veins are very large, being more in the form of
a dyke, and can be quarried. The ore will average about 4$
BISMUTH, and several sacks of sorted ore average 10$. There
is Magnetic Iron,, and some Peacock Copper in it, the Copper
being by itself in the rock. Price $7,500. High grade BIS¬
MUTH ORE is found in pockets only."
My prospector, who is an able man of good rep¬
utation, says that he will examine1 and make a full report on
these two properties, if you so ddsire it, for $150.00
Re TUNGSTEN Ore, I would say that I have con¬
trol of several very ."valuable properties partially developed,
and two ready to ship, located in Boulder County, Colorado,
which I can sell at a very low price. If this interests you,
for your new lamps, please advise me.
Hoping you are getting your usual good health.,
again, and with kind regards, I am,
Very truly yours,
i
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Asbestos, C^ruhe nub JFj'ibrc
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($l|i:scbro.isi| JUlng.)
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Thom at
iter
i A. Edison, Esq.
Orange, n
Dear Sir:-
In reference to the last conversation, the writet
has had with you, beg to advise that I can offer you a lot of
about 10 lbs. of pure TELLURIUM METAL for shipment within, a
few days at § 45. oo per lb. at New York, for smaller quanti¬
ties, but not less than 5 lbs. the price would be § 50. oo
per lb. in New York. For contracts the price can be reduced
quite some, provided comparatively large quantities are needed.
Kindly advise by return mail how much you need
and greatly oblige,
Very truly yours.
S’
esr/pf.
to advise that I cannot elicit a cheaper offer from
manufacturer of the TELLURIUM. He claims that it is
the purest tellurium ever made, as it is reduced by a
thoroughly worked out chemical process, and that he is
selling it at $ 6O.00 and Q5.oo per lb- to others.
If you will be good enough to let me know
what you will pay for a trial lot and how much you may
eventually be inclined to contract for I 3hall be glad
toiJBegotiate with him and see what can be done*
Thanking you for your prompt attention.
ESR/PE,.
6-boif - 0^ •
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E. V. MAOHETTE,
Exporter anO Importer,
office: 120 LIBERTY STREET,
June 8th, 1008. . . ^
JJfoi
Mr. Thomae A. Edison, J W.o *"** t''°~ -
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1 write to infornryou that I have ready to <v
ship 200 tons of Cobalt ore, av4^Si«g atorrtg^srCqtoi^ uLy-ouJ-K
and containing 100 ounces Silverf
vise me if you can use same, and if so, at whatprioe, a
Ledoux analysis, delivered at your works.
Re BISMUTH Ore and mines, please advise me
» you are ready yet, as owners have been holding the mat-
U6
Very truly yours.
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1908. Cement (D-08-06)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to
the business of the Edison Portland Cement Co. and the manufacture and
composition of cement. Many of the items are letters exchanged by Walter
S. Mallory, vice president of the Edison Portland Cement Co., and Frank L.
Dyer, president of the National Phonograph Co. included are letters and
memoranda pertaining to the cement company's bid to supply cement for the
construction of the Panama Canal. There are also items concerning an
excursion to the cement plant at Stewartsville, New Jersey, to which Edison
invited "important men connected with the building industry."
All of the documents have been selected.
THE RANSOME COMPANIES.
RANSOME A SMITH C
Concrete Engineers and Ar <
Re-enforced Concrete Fact
RANSOME CONCRETE C
II BROADWAY ,
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Thomas Edison, Esq., q^_o-va_C CJ>Cw^
Valley Road, \c> ‘
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liy dear Mr. Edison :-
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both before and after burning:
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tTo nA.£hA
i small percentage of borax ig Portl'anfl CementJ ,
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sr burning? The reason of my immiry is, a re- *
port comes from the ’.Vest that gr^aj^resl lt^ have^een obtfiined by O
such addition. What these results lareV\X "do ^o-T^oiowf5 r,
Some years ago, I experimented with the use of bor¬
ax in concrete to increase its fire resisting qualities but as far
as my experiment went, there were other materials Guch.for example,
as common salt that were more effective for this purpose.
Trusting that you are recovering from the operation
that you underwent some little time ago.
Yours cordially,
fir
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THE RANSOM E COMPANIES.
Re- enforced Concrete Factories.
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Thomas A. Edison, Esq.
Orange , H.ff.
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I thank you for your kind favor of April 23rd
I am quite interested in the statement in regard
to Titanate of Soda and should he glad to receive any further
information on this point that you may acquire and^willing to
impart ,
With regards,'
Yours truly.
"7
ELR/AC
<^$iamai>(X &J Mo*U Ater/i? fa
TKe Edison Portland Cement Co.
P. o. address. STEWARTSVILLE, N. J.
Mr. jr. V. Walker, , ' '
national Phonograph Col, 1 '
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Orange, U. J. ^ FRAilK L OVER. J
Dear Mr. Walker:
Replying to yours 6th, and confirming
telephone message of today, hog to state that the letters
are to he written on Laboratory paper and are to he signed
hy Mr. Edison personally, he having agreed to do this.
The whole point 1b that we want the invitation to he a
personal one from Mr. Edison. You will find that he will
sign these very rapidly if some one is sent up to hlot them
as fast as he signs them.
Yours very truly,
WSU-KBS
Dear Sir:-
I have received a number of requests recently for
an opportunity to visit and inspect the plant and machinery
of the Edison Portland Cement Company at Hew Village, N. J. ,
where many innovations in practice have been adopted. Under
these circumstances I have arranged for a special trip to
the Works on Saturday, July 18th, and shall be glad if you
will be my guest on that occasion. The party will be com¬
posed of important men connected with the building industry
who are mostly known to each other. A special train via
D. I. & W. R. R. , will leave Barclay and Christopher Streets,
Hew York City, at 11.30 A.M. and Hoboken at 11.45 A.M. and
will return from the Cement Works arriving in Hew York about
7 P.H. Lunch v/ill be provided on the train.
Awaiting the favor of a prompt reply, I am,
Yours very truly,
Isthmian Canal Commission
PURCHASING DEPARTMENT -r-
WASHINGTON, D. C. \J
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The Edison Portland Cement Company,
Stewart sville, II. J.
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Stewart sville, II. J. 'Vpy
Sirs: vj
I have the honor to acknowledge rooeipt of your lotter
of the 7th instant in regard to latest form of damp-proof hag,
and to advise that your letter together with aamplo of material
submitted has been forwarded to Lieut. Col., George W. Goethals,
Chairman and Chief Engineer, Culebra, Canal none, Isthmus of
Panama, for his eonsidoratioi
sire to submit may be seat, cl
tion. Any sample bags which you de-
t, charges prepaid, direct to Colonel
sting General Purchasing Officer.
JUL 1 0 1900
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TRe Edison Portland Cement Co.
Telegraph, Freight end Passenger Station, NEW VILLAGE, N. J.
p. o. address, STEWARTSVILLE, N. J.
Pott om c o S^u a r o BJ d c
July 10, 1908.
Mr, prank L. Dyer, ,
m Si iQnn
Edison Laboratory, "*• wf
Orange, N. J.
Dear jfr. Dyers
I assume it will be your policy to continue
banking in the banks with which we have been doing business
for a good many years. I write so that you may understand
our relations with the various banks with whom you are carry¬
ing your deposits, viz: The Cement Company getB accommoda¬
tions from these several banks, who discount our notes after
thfltt have been endorsed by Mr, Edison, One of the considera¬
tions for this accommodation is thevbalanoeB which your Com¬
panies carry, therefore, I would ask at any time if you Bhould
desire to make any changes, that you would first communicate
with me, so I can let you know how we stand with each partic¬
ular bank. I have no doubt but what you fully understand
this situation and am merely writing it to be on the safe
side.
With kindest regards, I am,
Yours very truly,
W8M-HB8 _ _ _ : _
(Personal)
W. G. Mallory, Esq, , Vice-Pres.,
Edison Portland Cement Co.,
Ste?fartsvllle, II. J.
Dear Mr, Mallory!
Youtb of the 10th inst. has been received. I
do not intend to make any change in policy so far as concerns our
hanking arrangements, I understand in a general way the situa¬
tion regarding the Oen»nt Company and, of course, will not make
any ohange without consulting you.
Yours very truly,
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Chairman Executive Committee,
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W.S. Mallory, Esq.,
o/o Edison Portland Cement Company, *
Stewartsville , N.J.
Dear Mr. Mallory: ■*
Colonel Pratt, the Congressman for this
Distriot, was in to see me today. He has just returned from
Panama, where he saw Colonel Coethals in reference to the
oemnt hid. I tobk him up to see Mr. Edison and we disoussed
the situation generally. Colonel Pratt seems to feel that he
oould have out hid accepted hy his going down to Panama and
making a personal demonstration before Colonel Coethals. The
idea would he to pay his expenses down and hack and if he suc¬
ceeded in having the hid acoepted, a larger payment could he
made . I suggest that you see Colonel Pratt right away and make
arrangements with him, as Mr. Edison seems to favor the sugges¬
tion. Let me know when you oan oome down, and I will make an
appointment next week with Colonel Pratt. \
. Yours very truly,
pld/ark.
President ,
BALES OFFICES:
Philadelphia, Pa., Arcodo Qulldlnc
NEW YORK, N. Y., St. damot Qulldlnc
PITT80UR0H,^PA., Machetnej^Bulldlnc
Qobton ,' mass., Po*t Office Square Bide
SAVANNAH, OA., National Bonk Building
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TKe Edison Portland Cement Co.
°T Telegraph, Freight and Passenger Station, NEW VILLAGE, N. J.
— A"r p. o, address, STEWARTSVILLE, N. J.
July 31, 1908.
Mr. prank L. Dyer,
Edi a on Lab oratory,
Orange, M. J
Dear Mr. Dyer:
S'
X am in receipt of youra 30th and note your com-
menta aa to Col. Pratt in connection with the Panama matter.
I leave with my family on Saturday morning for the aeaahore
and my addreaa next week will be c/o The Bluffs, Bay Head, H. J.,
and you may make an appointment with Col. Pratt for any day
next week, and if you will notify me what day, I will come to
the laboratory.
Yours very truly,
Q&& sjySA/
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V. P.
WSM-HBS
Williams, Proctor & Potts
■ July 31, 1908.
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Thomas A. Edison, Esq.
Orange
near Sir:
On the 18th inst. * . . .
oompanying your excursion to Hew” Vil^g®'' on the special t:
and meeting you at the uo~ v®*" **
ever made any studies or experiments in treating sewage witly
electricity, and if sb^r^- yo^^rf^^fve^^’^ny^ re ferine?”
to any publications containing the results'QfUyour studie
or experiments.
This subject of sewage treatment is £ e of
prime importance to the people in the eastern UnitedNstates,
and one that is engaging the attention of sanitary engineers
generally.
Any references that you can give me as to
the results of any work you have done in this line, will be
deeply appreciated.
cp/s
Very truly yours,
AJ^'
Dictated by Mr. Mallory on the 'phone August 1, 1908.
Dear Mr. D£er:-
Don't you think it would he well to have
Mr. McCarter tell us something about Sol, Pratt before we
make any engagement with him. The Panama contract ie the
most important matter in our hands at present, and we do not
want to make any mistake in our man who approaches the
Government. I have tried to get information about Colonel
Pratt locally, but am unable to get any information. Mo
doubt Mr. McCarter can get it for us.
'itULbdl
W.S. Mallory.
/August 3,1908,
.PRIVATE AHD OOHPIOTITIAL
ty.8Afe.Hory, Bbh.,
o/o The Bluffs,
' Bay Head, II. J.
Dear Mr, Mallory: -
I am in reoeipt of your letter of the
31s.t ult., together with your telephone message, in reference
to Colonel Pratt. Personally, Colonel Pratt does not appeal
to me with any particular foroe. He has: never impressed me
as "being particularly intellectual and hjls habits are not
temperate . At the Bame time, being a meibber Of Congress,
he, has some inf luenoe and he is undoubtedly very. active ,
persistent add resourceful. I understand he made a suooess
of building up the Mutual Benefit life Insurande Company' of
Newark.’ He has many friends and oould be summed up as a
general all around good fellow, That type doeB not appeal,
iso me , but it is unfortunately popular in this country.'" So .
far as I know, he is strictly honest. He has Just returned
fr<fm Panama on some Government jrork, and I have ^ suspicion
that he was sent down there on a seoret servloe:b;jr: th£ Pres-
ident or- some one high, in authority. At any rate, he waB
aooredited by the President hy a letter that struck me as
being absurdly enthusiastic. Under the oiroumstanoes, my
candid opinion is that he can do us no harm, but may bo able
to do some good, but you can decide as tp this v/hen you
see him.
I have arranged with Colonel Pratt to meet you here
on Wednesday morning at 10 o|olook, and if thiB date is not
satisfactory, advise me immediately, so that I can head
him off.
You suggest that Mr. MoOarter j|ight give us a
line on this matter, but unfortunately he is in Europe .
Yours very truly,
SED/AHK.
President,
Col. Charles Pratt,
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On Hay lot lest, the bids for the Portland oemeijfc/' 7^
to bo uoed on the Isthmian Canal were opened at Washington, D.C.,-^^
V
One Million Eive Hundred Thousand (1,500,000) barrels
Edison Portland Cement, deliveries to extend over a period of
three years, at a uniform rate per day, subject to the provi-
sions of paragraph 3 of the specifications , free of all charges
1. On dook, within reach of ship's taokle, in caload lots
f.o.b. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad dooks at Hoboken. ■ !
N. J . , United states, at the following- prioess
Unit Prloe Total Prloe !
In barrels One bollar and thirty-four cents Si. 34 $2, 010 ,000.00
In damp-proof bags, One Dollar and
_ forth-four oents $1.44 $8,160,000.00 ‘
lathmaln Canal commission to have the option,' should i
the damp proof bags prove to be iinpraotioablo in use,- and the 1
Edison Portland Cement Company also to have the option if it is ‘ i
found that it 1b not practicable to successfully manufacture
the damp proof bags, that
WOODEN EXPORT BARRELS, suitably lined with paper to exclude
moisture, may be. substituted for the damp proof bags for any
unfilled portion of .the contract. ■ ■ \ )
If "Delivery B" is accepted, then proposal under . '■ !
"Delivery C is void.'
Delivery "C" s 7
pive Hundred thousand (500,000) barrels Edison Portland
cement, to bo delivered at a uniform rate, within one year from
the date fixed for the commencement of deliveries, subject to '
the provisions of paragraph 3 of tha specifications, free of
all charges- -
1. On dook, within reach of ship'B tackle, in oarload
lots f.o.b. Delaware., Laokawanna,&. Western Railroad docks at
Hoboken, If. J . , United States, at the following prices:
Unit price Total Price
In barrels, One Dollar and twenty-
four cents $1.24 $620,000.
In damp proof bags, One Dollar and
thirty-four cents $1.34 $670,000.
The Isthmian Canal Commission to have the option, shoul
the damp proof bagB prove to be impracticable in use, and the
Edison Portland Cement Corpany oIbo to have the option if it
is found that it is not practicable to successfully manufacture
the. damp proof bags, that
WOODEN EXPORT BARRELS, suitably lined with pappr to
exolude moisture, may be Substituted for the damn proof bags
for any unfilled portion of the contract.
- If . "Delivery C" is aocepted, then proposal under
"Delivery B" is void.
Bags to be repurchased at Bix and one quarter (Gbti)
eaoh when returned in Bervioeable condition, freight prepaid,
to our Works, subject to our count and inspection.
About twenty-five bids were made and ours was the
only one on "damp proof bags. You will note that we will repur¬
chase the bags at six and one-quarter cents each, or twenty-five
oents per barrel of oeraent^so the net of our bid on damp proof
bags, exclusive of . cost to the Isthmian Comnisoion of returning
the bags, is as follows:
1,500,000 bbls., as per bid $1.44 per barrel
Less oredit 4 bags 0 eaoh ,2S
$1.19 Net price
500,000 bbls, as per bid $1.34 per barrel
Less oredit 4 bags ® 6if{ eaoh .25
$1.09 Net prioe •
We have kept id close touch with all of Mr. Edison's'
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work on tha damp-proof tags, and 15811 eve that the problem lias
been solved and have have authorized him to go ahead and build
one section oomplete for the creating of the duok before it Is *
made into the bags, and we hope to have this in commercial oper¬
ation shortly.
As to our facilities and ability to manufacture a
cement of the very highest quality and in the quantities required
by the' Commission, we court the most rigid investigation and .
will also be pleased to show any representatives. Col. Goethals
may appoint, just what Mr. Edison has done and is doing on the
Knowing the bids made by some of the other Cement
Companies, we realize that the option which we reserve in our
bid to furnish the oement in wooden barrels, if accepted by us, .
would make the cement oost the Commission more thun some bids
they have in wood, in view of this we are willing to rest our
oase entirely upon the damp proof bag and give the Commission
the option, in case the bags prove to be impracticable in use,*
to oanoel any unfilled portion of the oontraot, we also re¬
serving the right in oase it is found that it is not practicable
to successfully manufacture the damp proof bagB, to so notify
the Commission and at their option, oanoel any unfilled portion of
the order or furnish it in wood as per our bid.
Ve hope to have one of our two bids aooepted
entirely on the merits of our produot arid facilities, and wo
solloit a ohanoe to show what we have. '
Yours very truly ,
V, P.
August 28, 1908.
Dear Sirs:-
I arranged, by mail with Mr. Edison tc ship me
a cement mixer which he v/as Mind enough to lend me tempo--
rarily, and to ship me as much cement as could be put into
the car bringing the mixer. It is a pretty small thing,
and I dare say that it has escaped Mr. Edison's recollect¬
ion. He spoke of attending to the matter as soon as a
certain one of his managers returned. He was to hare re¬
turned seme weeks ago.
If you could. take the matter up with the proper
individual without troubling Mr. Edison, .1 diould be
greatly obliged. If you should find that it is not con¬
venient tc send the mixer, I shall get one, elsewhere and shall
be .just as much indebted tc Mr. Edison for his good intention.
Yours very sincerely,
Edison Portland Cement Company,
New Village, New Jersey.
AUG 29 1908
Dear Mr. EDI 3D N:
. The following about covers
the Western situation at present.
W. S. Mallory.
Sept. 10, 1908.
Jir. E. C. Miller,
314 Chestnut Bt.,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Dear Mr. Miller:
On ray return here from the meeting in
Detroit, I find yourB 15th enclosing the clipping relative
to the Panama Canal. None of the mills seem to know about
a further inquiry for 80,000 barrels of oement, and we all
doubt whether any further award has been made to the Atlas
Company. We understand, however, that the statement made
that the Panama Commission will not require shipments of
cement until after July 1st next is probably true and that
this is a great disappointment to the Atlas Company, as one
of ; their reasons for making the low price whioh they did
was to have shipments through this winter, so to. enable them
to run some of their plants right through the winter. If
part of the contract had been awarded to us, this delay in
the starting of shipments would have been a very great dis-
appointment to us also, as the winterSshipments was one of
the most attractive parts of the oontraot.
We had a very satisfactory meeting in Detroit
and are now considering a proposition rande to us by the Western
manufacturers to come in under the patents held hy the Worth
American Co, , including h'oth the Hurry & Seaman and Edison
patentB, and form an aeoooiation right along the lines of the
one we are now perfecting in the East and make a national,
instead of a local, affair of it, directly along the lines of
the first scheme on which we have "been working.
The situation in the West is very muoh worse than
in the East, and practically every western manufacturer with
Whom I talked, admitted that they were losing money on every
barrel of cement Whioh they ship and they could not stand the
present, pressure for any great length of time and absolutely
something must be done to relieve the situation. One of the
larger manufacturers told me that if the western men had had
the sense to follow out the suggestions whioh I made to them
at the Chicago meeting a year ago last Ifay, that there waB no
doubt but what the western millB would have Baved several
millions of dollars during 1908 and that practically everything
that I told them would happen without proper cooperation, had
happened, and that we had at present a very great opportunity
to complete an arrangement whioh would prove of groat value
to .the industry as a whole for the next few yearB to come.
The Universal Cement Co. (U. S. Steel Corporation) are included
in the proposition made by the western people, and in fact, Mr,
Hager, ; their President, iB oonduoting the negotiations for
the western oompanies.
As to husineBB conditions, I found that the mills
located west of the Mississippi River are making quite heavy
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shipments, forwarding thair entire outputs and drawing rapidly
on their stocks of cement, although the prices Btill continue
exceedingly low and all mills, as already stated, ant opera¬
ting at a loss. I understand there was some movement among
the larger mills to Bee if an increase in price could not be'
woriced up in the very tear future, so to get them on a basis
where they might run without all losing money.
The mills whioh are located in the Illinois and
St. Louis district also report some improvement in shipments,
bul prices are at a very low ebb. The mills in the eastern
part of Michigan and Ohio are about in the same condition as
our eastern plants, with only about 75^ demand and all running
more or less short time, though it is evident that the improve¬
ment has started in the far weBt and I believe in due time will
work its way east and I am also hopeful we will ho able to put
into effect a plan whioh will materially help the industry,
both east and west. The action taken hy the eastern companies
this year in dumping whatever cement they possibly oould sell
in the weBt has apparently had the desired effect, as there is
no doubt hut rihat it costB the western manufacturers more to
manufacture their material.
Yours very truly,
V, P.
WSM-HBS
33 </
10/28/08.
Mr. H. P. Miller:
Please note that Col. Goethals of the Panama Commis¬
sion, expects to visit the Laboratory some time Priday forenoon.
Mr. Edison stated that this date was satisfactory to him( hut I
send thiB along as a memorandum so that he will Jonow of the
engagement.
PLD/lW
P. L. D.
®fje Brisott $ortlanb Cement Co,
ftt. Jamtsf JBuilbing, 1133 JSroabtonp
E. MEYER ( ^ iieto gorfe 11/13/08
Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
Orange, N. J.
NOi
191
Dear Sir;-
Heferring to Mr. Ward's letter to you of the 10th inBt.
in regard to the option spoken of, of oourse, you oan Bee through
this.
When we were negotiating with the Williams Engineering
Oo. for the 70,000 Darrels for the dry dook, Mr. Btradley, V.E.,
of the Bath Co. was negotiating for thiB order. Our Mr.
Churchill in talking with him, asked whether he was outtlng.
^Of ooturse, we knew that he was^ Mr. Stradley stated that as
far as he was oonoemed, he did not out the price hut i that he
had Borne options out for large amounts, over which he had no
oontrol.
We asked him whether Frank Vernon had an option and he
said, "Yes?. How, this Frank Vernon is not worth a dollar
yet he was assumed to have an option of long standing that would
enable him* to sell 70,000 to 100,000 Darrels at out prioes to
the Willlpis Engineering Go.
Zt only goes to show what we are up against and have.
Deen all this year.
Yours very truly,
M*K ,, TPFHiro Wi OTCil
[ENCLOSURE]
THe Edison Portland Cement Co.
Telegraph, Freight and Pass
jer Station, NEW VILLAGE, N. J.
P. 9. address. STEWARTSVILLE, N, J.
,v WSfSSSS
November 23, 1908.
Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
- Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir:
I am forwarding you toy express two of the patches
which I have taken off from Con. #132. The first one of these-//1*
patches was put on Nov. 9th and has run a total of iBZi hours.
Patch "A". This patch was only hanging on hy
one edge, the rest of it toeing loose. You can see, however,
that it has in one place taken a piece of the belt with it.
Patch "B" . This patch was in good condition, tout
where the belt was turned up it was apparently loose. I there^
fore cut the edges and pulled it off. You can see it. has
brought the top part of the belt for part of the ways and in
fact it was holding very tight and was very diffi0„lt to pull
it loose. Patch "B" has run 150 hours.
Patch “A" was put on with a mixture of 65^ of
julatong and 35^ of toalata, tout Ludwig Ott; told me at the time
that he did not get it properly mixed and it got cold while
putting it on the belt, therefore he did not think it was a
good experiment.
Patch "B« was put on with 90^ julatong and 10^
toalata. ThiB is the one which has apparently held the best.
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There is another patch on this Conveyor which
has run 150 hours and was made with 65^ julatong and 35^ halata.
This one apparently is in the heBt condition of the three and
Ludwig Ott advises that the material was thoroughly mixed and
was well put on.
We also have a patch on Con. #109 in the Chalk
Plant. This has run 49 hours and seems to he in perfect con¬
dition. We also put some of the mixture on the belt without
any canvas covering to see if it would protect, hut this acts
like the B. S.t that is, the grit keeps pressing into it until
it gets thick, in some places to , and then cracks off.
Prom the above experiments it would seem perfectly
feasible to put a wearing surface on our belt3 by this manner
and I expect to put up the experimental conveyor and test it
out more thoroughly. This surely does stick to the belt tight
and during the time this has been running we have had some
quite cold weather, which does not seem to have affected the
holding power of the julatong and balata.
Yours very truly,
Superintendent,
TEe Edison Portland Cement Co.
“u^Z.AZ“na°^°AU“ Telegraph, Freight and Passenger Station. NEW VILLAGE. N. J. philahelphi "*pa * A°c!
p. o. address. STEWARTSVILLE, N. 1
Mr, H. S’. Miller,
Edison Laboratory, .
Orange, H. J.
Dear Sir:
Yesterday, while discussing with Mr. Edison, also
Mr. Eyer and Mr. Duncan, the matter of long kilns, over which
we are now having litigation, Mr. Edison recalled a statement
made to him quite a good many years ago by the representative
of the Green Economizer Co. in reference to some experiments
being tried with long kilns. My recollection is that the man
to whom Mr. Edison referred is Mr. Dodd, or Dodge, who formerly
lived on High street not far from Mr. Upton.. I have an impression
that he is a relative of yours and if so , I wish you would give
me his name and address, or what would be better, drop him a line
and ask him some time when he is near the Laboratory to drop in
and see Mr. Edison, who wojild like to ask him as to some experi¬
ments they made in the early days with the economizer in connec¬
tion with cement kilns.
Please let me know the outcome of this, as it is
important that we get the information, if possible.
Yours very truly,
1908. Cement House (D-08-07)
This folder contains correspondence relating to the widely publicized
development of Edison's poured concrete house. Much of the material consists
of unsolicited inquiries regarding the unique nature, quick construction, and low
cost of the projected house. Also included is correspondence concerning
designs and waterproof paints for the house, as well as requests to view
Edison's one-quarter scale model. In addition, there are letters by the
manufacturer and philanthropist, Henry Phipps, and by Joseph Fels, the
manufacturer of Fels-Naptha soap; and letters and circulars concerning the
business of the North Jersey Paint Co., an Edison company organized in 1908
to manufacture waterproof paints for cement surfaces. Many of the unsolicited
letters contain Edison marginalia, usually indicating that a circular be sent in
response. Copies of two such circulars, one typewritten and the other printed,
can be found in this folder.
Less than 10 percent of the documents have been selected. With the
exception of a few samples, unsolicited inquiries have not been selected.
Nr. 28192.
New York, January 2nd, 1908.
Thomas A. Edison Esq.
ORANGE, N,J
Dear Sir,-
A few months ago an item was published in New-
York papers, according to which you have succeeded to in¬
vent an ingenious mode of moulding Houses of oement and a
stone mixture. This interesting item has found its way to
the European Newspapers and I donot doubt that many in¬
quiries have been addressed to you in this matter.
His Imperial and Royal Highness, the Archduke
Eranz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary takes a great interest
in the building of sanitary houses at moderate costs and
at His direction, I beg leave to request you to kindly
send me all information oonceming this very interesting
and for the welfare of mankind moat important invention.
Pleaae accept my sincere at thanks for your oour-
tesy and believe me to be,
Yours very respectfully
The Consul-General
by
J. CONRAD OTT, Jr.
REPRESENTING
F. GUSMAN and E. DENTAMARO
ENGINEERS AND CONTRACTORS
No. 6 BOULAC STREET
GENERAL IMPORT AND EXPORT AGENTS
ROOM 842 DREXEL BUILDING
Philadelphia, Pa., January 10, 1908.
contemplating handling some
Nr. 516,
New York, January 10th, 1908.
Thos. A. Edison Esq.
ORANGE, N.J.
near Sir,-
I hag to acknowledge the reoeipt of your letter of the- 7th
inst. and to express to you my sinoereat thanks for the information
oontained therein.
Yours truly
The Consul-General
New York, January 11. 1908.
Thoa. A.
Dear Sir,
me to see
letter of
to inform
to be ,
Sir,
Edison sen. Esq.
Orange, 11. J.
vl
C take the liberty to request you to kindly permit
the model of the house of cement mentioned in your
the 7th inst., and -provided you grant my request -
me where and when I could seo it.
Appologizing for the trouble, I have the honor
four obedient servant
Austro-Hungarian Consul General.
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Your favor received and contents
particularly noted, I thank you for the information
. which it contained, but am still in the dark with P {
referenoe to the object of my letter, and beg your f
indulgence in asking a few more questions. ?
What 1 want to do is to form a company to-]
construct the houses in conformity with the rules !
laid down by you. I would like to ask what the l j
cost would be to obtain plans and moulds for one '
of your houses of about eight rooms? Will these
moulds be made under your personal supervision, oi
where will they be obtainable? How soon would it?? \ *
be possible to secure a set with the necessary ma- Iff
chinery with which to erect houses?’ "
I would be pleased to get facts in c
Just as soon as possible, If you could put ;
correspondence with other parties who may be intei- ? { it. {
ested in construction of moulds or other machinery,, t, * q '
provided that this is out of your line, I would *C f f
very muiph appreciate the favor. i -£-4 |
I am not seeking this information out of Ljl r
idle curiosity. I am a man of mature years and am r
very much interested in this work, and can assure 9C*
you that any favors shown will be esteemed highly fr - ? .
Very Cordially Yours, . „ 5 *4
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Dear u,Hj iMJ6tZJr7e~- A»
Youjr esteemed oon^Uj-
Mr. Thomas A. Edison, T. ' 4 -
Orange , . N. . Y. ^
I IOU| esveeme
i e 10th Inst at hanS/land we. see/j the mktter
„ Vhe wqrirl'nle^a§a^’'
that it, islpraotioal. WeAindersta’VUl' .
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. this issue, but,
u^^jDRjion on ' say I
nioation of th _ _ _ , _ „
and wish to be on time in takin^'ljup ltd
1. This winter you will maice
oonorete house oan be built am. -
this first essential step and wie^ust^’wait
2. You oan, ’if you will, in the meailtimegive
Cook Co, Ill, to have exolusive right to build these oonorete
houses provided, we oomply- with any and all . terms. that y6u see
fit to lay down.
To begin with would say that I have qssooiated with me two
Real Estateimen one. of 14 years experienoe in this oity,and an
old soldier. The other a younger man, a Spotoh pusher.: I am the
soholar. Secretary, Promoter and all round take oare of things.
We will oapatalize for $500,000. Raise $120,000. to pay for
three sets of moulds. Work one on the north, one on the west and
one on the south side. We will build two story houses for so
much on lots of owners. We will Aake up land and build Homes for
working men in places as near oity as possible with good trans¬
portation.
I am good at details and have experienoe, so you
are. trusting your, reputation and philanthropies to good hands.
Give us exolusive oontrol and we will do the rest. Meanwhile will
send you any references you may wish.
Thomas A. Edison,
Jan. 15, 1908.
Orange, N. J. oW V*—* f .
Dear Sir,- CJ-r6"~l ‘
Your oiroular explaining the new oemont building xhh\
Jeot is at hand. I have already taken steps t$ interest others, \o
the extent of forming a Joint "stock Company, nut must have more _t~-
IQniJ^ "Ct* «*) tu.al,T(
definite information in order tol enlist their determined effort . . j
U wrf ^ H--Wu* (VoSl^v cJL6=UU
With that ond in view oan you nfet send me pllans, speoifioationB or
With that ond in view oan you send me pllans, speoifioationB or
out of the house you propose to^ereot for #f ooo? Of are q.
more interested .in suburban hoqes , oottages and dwble houses, that
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do not show from the outside appearanoe thatvj,hey^reajj.lj ar^jclouble
houses, than in temenl^^ftat is yojuvplan for the interior finish,
oan this same oement be polished for mantles, stairs, an(t~framework
of doors and windows , or is the interior of the building to be done
r- in expensive woods or grained surfaoe as the purse of the builder
may deoide? Is the exterior to be unfinished or oolored or painted?
In faot we want a tangible working basis, something to show the pub-
lid' that they may know what we are offering them in the way of '
modern homes at a. moderate ooBt. And we want to get our charter
as soon as possible that we may be the first in the field when the
building season. opens early in the spring. Trusting that we shall
reoeive at an' early date suffioient data from whioh to work up an
(rt. Wyf CoiAniEj
■ou nM send me pllans, sp
Elizabeth Kugler,
100 So. Irvine Ave.,
Sharon, Pa.
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York Fenna. Jan* I7th / 08.
EDGAR H. GREENHAM /
TRIESTE /
AGENT Q
CORPORATION OP LLOYD' S
The Liverpool Underwriter's Association
— ThoB. A. Edison Ebc
CORRESPONDENT C
Board of Underwriters of New-York
•tional Board of Marine ^0ax Sir,
I am ext re/
latter of the 181
muoh interest.
GV ^ ^\zKieste, 18th . Jan. . 18^ .
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Underwriters of Now-York
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ily ohl|ged for your kind replyJto my
rw. -paj»«»««««p*w VU&. l-w tft-cj
ito,.and f note^the oontente with
The extension ole the Trieste Harbol
phanFyrofaNewMzeo°aflOI®eoti°“ with the opening and the
antiolpated increased traffic will rehdex necessary the construction
of eoonomioal houses to he chiefly oppuptfed by the working clabfc t>f
people, and I think muoh could be done vrltfr your scheme in this-eity
and near by districts.
You Btate in your leti/Wf that you will be glad to.
license reputable parties to make mouldy .and ereot houses without
any payments, on aocount of patents. Well, may I ask you M ftfil #6uld
be disposed to furnish me in due time with plans andg^S&ilbdJiBite of
the iron moulds and the machinery in question, and aiwgjggjKg ’ ttflv.ma
the lloense to oonstruot the Bald moulds and ereot JHhF3*oub**?-'
If you will giTe. your favourable toaaf deration: to
thiB offer and you will kindly write to
fully into this matter.
Trusting to hear
Tjjwa,
aa^e»ra^ ms*
8 THORNBERRY /& WALSTON
,v Sullivan, Ind., January 21, 1908.
e, I. J.
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Sinoe you first made puoliS^oftr j^Lmi
Sinoe you first made publifr*^dtLr plans fon-£he construction of
f** V'*v‘‘a
dwellings from cement, and from your moulds, f have become interested in
| 2m l^0-LUt&-4
the suoeese of the enterprise. I oan see where this wouljL_be. a great thing
04> 3 •i~-G*.U*b
for the cities and even the larger towns, but what' I sort of oement buildings
trr otAja-t-d-.v.. Vit-Cfc-A
will the people looated in smaller dr even in the rural districted hav,p
v» -V-WtOv W-^-vX. o^f «-
at their disposal. In other words, is their anyj way oftmakntg the oonorete
lUlds, f have become :
I 2m v^o-i
jtf <5W«— jo S
towns. but vhat'lsort of oement .buildings ’ .
Or o*- {s4.rfvwvt«-|..^A ollMj.Ad*.s .
dr even in the rural districted have
dr even in the rural diBtriotsL have
v» X,cw.«'U~k S-rvtCOv <x
is their any] way oftmaiktg the Conor el
~Ta I 7-4
at their disposal. In other words, is their anyj way oft. making the oonorete
C^&dpt* 'm Ots-v U6 I
blooks or brioks so as to be suitable building materiajl for^p. dwelJLingy ^ ^ ^
Would greatly appreoiate any gdvio^or sTJK^stion you may have to
offer along this line. It seems to me that oonorete construction is in its
infancy and that the immediate future will reveal! some extraordinary faots
The status of the business now t
i to be that innumerable
Companies have bet
organized to, do oement work. A greater part of these
oertainly inexperienoed workman, and I anticipate quite a bit of dissatis¬
faction. What I would like to know further is whether or not a strictly
soientifio workman can turn out good building material from oement and at the
My reason for asking the above information from you is two-fold,
namely; first, beoause I want the opinion of a purely Boientifio man, second,
because I have the utmost faith in your integrity.
Thanking you in advanoe for your favor, Iremain,
Very trpljryours ,
Mobile Commercial Club
JOHN CRAFT . Pres
J, D. BLOCH . First Vice-Pres
H. H. WEFEL, Jr . Second Vice-Pres
HARRY T. HARTWELL . Tree
BENJ. B, COX . Seer
.
Mobile, Aim, Jan 23/08.
Mr Thomas A. Edison,
My dear Mr Edison:-
SsMj
hand which 'Pjwant A*>W£lank
you for your prompt reply. X would likejQjp^iiave a£l>fc^t^inf^}m(kt3^j^iand
data withtthe view of accepting yoth' off privig^^o^upd-^taking
to construct the houses out of cement
As you say you wAc be gj^^Io foe repmwxble
parties to make molds and erect' houses without ggi^payment on account
of patents, the only restriction being that, the Resigns of the houses
be satisfactory to you and good material used. In reply to that con¬
dition I will cheerfully accept yours.
As to my reputation and integrity I will respect¬
fully refer you to any banking institution in Mobile, or any business
house or any citizen as to who I am.
I am anxious to take hold of your invention and to
do it full justice, and take as much interest in seeing that it be a
success as you are personally. I .will leave nothing undone to accom¬
plish that.
Mobile Commercial Club
JOHN CRAFT . President
J. D. BLOCH . First Vice-President
H. H. WEFEL, Jr . Second Vice-President
HARRY T. HARTWELL . Treasurer
BENJ. B. COX . Secretary
Mobiles Ala.,
I therefore thank you in an advance for any and all information
and instruction that you may impart to me to carry out the proposition.
With best wishes, I am.
E. G. Setter
TjAWYHR
&
Mr . The a ■ A .Edison ,
Orange, M. .3
Dear Girl
In your favor of the Slat
device far the construction of ccsent he
"I Trill he glad to license
houses without any poynents
that the designs of the houses ho
good nateri'al".
Dallas, Texas, Jan. 85,1007.
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liry t^chj^j is&fr***
■*}ia£S%'J u>7t&rv^~
! parties to tiako Bcuid3 and erect
rtiufactory _ _
and that th^ey^ shaJj^jf « r»_
It i
further stated that the coat of nochinery and wilds' will be
„ gZwc n~L**+* ft*
y G-#— '***->* vu^vvAJ®^
slow to take hold of any thjing k\rr, bufr>if an exclu4iv(
ti- UU, Q-es^iXZ . C>S -c^~(L.d \ f"*w
S40.000.
Our people ar<
right to use thiB aynti
returns on the investment is available ,
abundant capital to prosecute the work. '
Will you kindly advise me whether you are now ready toptigol
respect to this natter, and whether it would her agreeahle^toyou for
mt up Trith you or your representative in person,
When will the device he ready^J»r"^Jse?
Bespectfully,
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received us, and for the Information given mo*
I advised my friend, Bolton Hall, of Hair
York what X had seen, and I enclose you a letter just
■ ' e.
reoeived from him on the subject,
X overlooked to ask you about Condensation
on the inside, and Hall has struck this point. Kindly
advise me fully in the matter and return the letter*
which X have not yet answered.
7B7 Fifth
Avenue,
New York, Feb.5/08.
Dear Mr Edison:-
Llk® myself, or even more so, you
are over-run with letters from vatious people in
regard to oonorete construction.
1 am enclosing you. a letter from
Mr L.L. Burton, Fort Worth, Texas, whioh you can
either answer or assign to the waste basket, as
you deem best.
With kind regards,
yours sincerely.
/
[ENCLOSURE]
Mr. Henry Phipps,
New York City,
Hear Sir:--
Fort Worth, Texas. Jan. 30,
'/yur
Jan. 30, >Q8.
i V ^
C/o U. S, Steel Corporation:
X have noticed in one of our daily papers an
article under Buffalo headline, to the effect that you were
more or less interested in the concrete industry, and at
present was contemplating the erection of a number of
concrete houses in or near' the city of New York.
Now Mr; Phipps, I have recently completed an
Automatic Machine, (Patents pending), and process for the
making of concrete stone, which T firmly believe will bear
the same relation in the future to the concrete industry
that the Bessemer process of steel making has to the steel
industry in the past. Thi3 Automatic Machine will have a
daily capacity of twenty- four hundred (2400) to twen ty- eight .
hundred (2800) stones per day of ten (10) hours, inasmuch as
the stones are produced by the automatic machine, which
eliminates hand labor almost to its entirety; the only hand
labor being that of removing the product (finished stone) from
and endless belt, which conveys the stone from machine to
place of curing. It is obvious that stone made with such
celerity -will warrant their being made and sold at an
incomparably lower 'figure than any other good building material
is being made and sold to-day.
I am contemplating coming to New York for the purpose
of organising a Company to install plants in New York City
and elsewhere as business demands. 'if you think you might
become interested in the proportion of my enterprise, I will
give you an immediate call.
Trusting to be favored with an early reply, I am-.
Very truly your3,
Address'! //22nd & McKinley - Port Worth, Tex. £ £ ,
X am in receipt of many letters regarding newspaper articles, de¬
scribing a cement house, which I am about to erect. The writers of
most of the letters have misread the articles and I take this occasion
to explain just what X propose to do.
I now have a model, one fourth the size of the house, designed
by Hew York architects.
This winter I shall construct iron moulds and devise machinery,
whereby a full sized house can be cast in twelve hours, after the
moulds are in position. At the end of six days, the iron moulds are
removed and the house will be complete, including stairs, partitions,
mantels, bath, etc., and after drying six days will probably be ready
for occupancy.
To build this house for One Thousand hollars, it. is essential
that it be erected on sandy soils, as the material excavated for the
cellar is all that is required to build the house, except, of course,
the cement .
The cost of the iron moulds will be about $25,000.00, the cost of
the other machinery about $15,000.00. Prom this' outfit an unlimited
number of houses can be erected. But houses cannot be erected for
the price named, with a single mould, as the machinery and the men
would be idle several day.s. But, if say moulds for six houses were
used, the machinery and men would be kept in continuous employment;
erecting from 10 to 12 houses monthly. The patterns which I am mak¬
ing are so devised that the same patterns can be used to make over
sixteen different types of houses.
It is probable that companies will be formed, who will have
several moulds, each of a different design and will go actively
into business.
I have not gone into this with the idea of making money from
it, and will be glad to license reputable parties to make moulds and
erect houses, without any payments on account of patents. The only
restriction being; that the designs of the houses be satisfactory
to me, and that they shall use good material; but nothing will be
done until the experimental house is erected.
Yours very truly,
In Re #91.
Feb. 11 .
1908,
-MANNOMACNEILLE-ARCHITECTS-
Thomas Edison, Esq.,
Edison Laboratory,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir:
Our Mr. Mann will come out to the laboratory Thursday
afternoon, leaving New York on the 1.30 train, to make suggestions
for changing the ornamental design so as to overcome the practical
difficulties you spoke to Mr. MacNeille about, provided this
time is not inconvenient to you.
If you thought it desirable, we would be very glad to
give one of your draughtsmen the use of a drawing table and mater-.
ialB in our office, so that he could be in more constant touch with
Mr. Mann while making these drawings, ffe realize that of necessity,
there are constantly little questions coming up and it would be a
great assistance to him if he could have Mr. Mann's instant
decision.
Yours very truly, v
Orange, N.J.
Dear Mr. Edison:
Thank you for yours of the 4th inst., in
which you tell me that there is no condensation in the thick
walls of the twelve acres of concrete buildings there. ’
I do not presume any special knowledge
any desire to try to teach you, but dwellings with small
rooms^j everything closely built and containing a more or
lees teeming population, is quite^a different tiring from
large concrete buildings, occupied by comparatively few
men and with plenty of air space. I still believe your
houses are going to sweat.
Yours very truly.
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iciFicATioM Dear Sir:-
We have beerPcol
mittee appointed by the Bishop o:. - - *
sylvania to inquipe<!intq, and report upon^the feasibil-jj
ity, both from a financial and practical standpoint,
of living a stock set of -forms made for the purpose
of moulding ooncr e.te^^gai’on churches .
jit is -the.-iiift^ofr.the committee that, if a
ate of forms yiero made which could be shipped from
.place to\place, it might be possible to co»struct a
series of permanent buntings for less than the cost
of temporary frame sljructures.
As the question ^tras undoubtedly brought up
owing to tha, article wShch appeared in the papers some
time "Since, credited to you, regarding the extremely
low cost of ooncrete structures when made with a
3tock set .of forms, we write you in the hope that
you will spare a short time to let us know your views
on the subject.
The building which tiie committee has in mind
is 30 X 60 feet in.-plan, one story in height, with a
basement about four feet under ground, to, be used for
social purposes. The main church floor will be about
five feet above ground line, with a first1 story height
of ten feet to the roof line, the roof to be A shaped,
with either frame of concrete gable ends. ' "
T/e would esteem it a great favor if you will
'ear_ from you in regard to this matter, as it
in which we are all interested.
Awaiting your pleasure , we ar'e ,
Very truly, yours,
Mr. Thomas AlVa Edison ,
^jOrange ,- jj. j. ' x\
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39 Wilson street London EC
2 3rd April 1908
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Orange
N.J. U.S.A.
Dear Mr Edison
You will recall Mrs Eels1
Eebruary in the matter of your concrete hQSfi*/ building-,
again and most anxious to hear that you have euecessfully soj£j
problem hy actually putting up a building- after your pro cm
come over to America very frequently, and if yea will advise me,
either here or c/o Eels & Co., Phllsdftlphia, then your house Is com¬
pleted , I will come and see it.
Under another cover is being hSttt you m ®pgia*fc Mfegaolne •The
Tidies Realm* containing an article which give* some amount of my
email holdings or agricultural village, at May land, teat, from
which y^u will gather hoe anxious I am to have the yvefelMl of inex¬
pensive ad #<m mams far m&tm $«a»4e aalvaft.
me mtasSk MWm Wdaa, of the •v«r York
la m#m «r iud near lakewood
«®al ha tea tffiXl «t mm ttRcieaa* X «a m*m» to ko&» all about
it.
Mr. H.'e. Miller:
1 1 acknowledged the attached letter from
Mr. Chas. I. Brasseur, stating that it would he referred to Mr.
Edison and he would no douht hear from him regarding the Concrete
dwellings .
4/25/08.
Eno-
[ENCLOSURE]
West Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir:-
I am in receipt of a letter from my friend, Mr. Gottschalk
the American Consul-General Mexico City, who having heard
through me of my deal with Mr. .Edison writes me as follows:
"I hoard a few days ago of a new Edison device — building
small "Model" workmans* dwellings of poured cement. There is
a field here for that sort of construction and some local cement
beds, unexpioitea, out capable, I am assured, of exploitation."
I do not know if \£is interests you at all, but if it
does, I am sure that Mr. /Gottschalk, who is now on hi3 way to
Washington,will be glad/tome\t you if you desire further informa¬
tion. In case you dp, kindly \let me know., and oblige,
Yours very truly,
,3Jnmcfl JRccforij.
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n opportunity to give /
are constantly re- f
We w rit
this matter any consideration, because we are
ceiving letters from all over the country in which the writers
ask how they can go about to procure the houses. The last
letter comes from California and states that there is a
large field in San Erancisco on account of the great fire
and the wide extension of the fire limits which prohibits
the building of frame houses.
The news of your illness some time back caused us
deep regret and we hope that you are again restored to health.
Yours very truly,
!lIoW York "?0l agram," .’.toy 19, 3900)
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£» •
ffomoH for workingman that cost loan that ?1 non „
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tho Hotel ['nlokorboolcor. rr Teslov'n TMnmflJJ ** J,CQ* ',lho iB r°elstoroa nt
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oovaa bo put up for ?700. each. 0/ cLmo! tto^'ia^thl ttmt thGy
about thoee hows, mtf thoy are not equipped X ?r l«»rtOM
thoy have boon found BufritMon-i- )•„ Ji , , " m.0Bt modern devioos. but
1.0UB0 consist 0fT* «oL oS „ Wt^L T** 0f WOrktaiJ Kndh
floor find two tho uopor ' i<wr of Jlfl ronmfl oomprl se the lower
ohoapor. But It would be ***
sort were pat up throughout tho oountrT nn , , Pollings of this
of buying his own homo. Ownership ffiv5s a nnn h?f ttLn opportunity
to holp him sooorapllsh greator things In hi 11 no? r5frnity thr,t are. bound
house he feola that ho Is someboS Sd L levs 0Wn **■ own
him one of tho host qualities of good citizenship ^?f*e^Bl,oe *hat gives
June 26, 1908.
Mr. P. P. Brady,
Edison Laboratory,
Orange, ir. J.
This will be handed to you by Mr. E. L. Dougherty,
who Mr. Edison wishes to make some tests in the chemical lab*
oratory. Please introduce him to Mr. Louis Ott.
Yours very truly,
WSK-KBS
Mr. Louis Ott,
Edison Laboratory,
Orange, N. J.
My'- dear Louis:
Mr. Dougherty is the mein whom
we have engaged as Manager of Sales to intro¬
duce Anhydrol. Mr. Edison says to give him
every attention and help him in any way you
can to make these tests, as we are very anxious
to get' the' work done in the shortest possible
time, as we are putting the material on the
market at present.
W. s. Mallory,
Ur. Thomas A. Edison,
Orange , N . J . , '
Dear Sir:-
By request from your purchasing agent, Mr. Edgar .
S. Opjdyke, we are sending you this day, under separate cov¬
er , our catalogue of relief ornamentation .
This catalogue shows a thousand patterns of
stock goods which we have for quick delivery, and we /also
mfcke to order from drawings and will be glad to give
estimates at any time.
We make ornaments for exterior ubo - these
possessing all the staying qualities of stone or terra
cotta, are much finer in modeling and execution, and much
less expensive.
[ENCLOSURE]
\$lNYTI-IING NOW? .3
When You W~ arn t~F rgu‘re's,"’Est i ma t e s
ON
"RELIEF ORNAMENTATION, PAPIER-
MACHE, COMPO & STAFF
FOR INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR DECORATION,
DON’T FAIL TO NOTIFY US.
.• mp 'house OF CHARLES EMMEL
No. ONE MADISON AVENUE. Cor. 23rd STREET
if you oould give me a little advice along that line.
1 am figurelng on putting up a room 20 hy 40 A one
story, oenter entrance, plate front, about 12 ft. ceiling,
with basement under full length.
Now what would you advise? Which is best, conorete
blocks, if so, what size, or building it up solid, as X think
from your desoriptiin $ou rndBt have done.
Do you have any air spaces in the wallB? Are your
buildings lathed,, or do you plaster on the. oement itBelf? How
thick should my walls be? Think X should want them to be strong
enough to support a second story in oase I ever wanted to add
another. Do your wall s eyer get damp on the inBide?
About what would be tge' expense of Buoh a building?
when masons oharge $3.00 per. day, oarpenters $2.50, and oement
aboufr $1.65 per.bbl.
Would you advise oement floor and roof?
Any information along this line would be gladly
received. Tours truly.
-•Manncmacneille-architects-
Thomas Edison, Esq.
A IV _ _
Edison Laboratory, y / —
Orange, E. j| \K^ri' ^
Lear Sir:
ffe write to inquire if there are any new developments
in the Edison concrete house and to learn if you are yet prepared
to let us Eno’w what sort of a license you would wish to give us to
erect the buildings.
People are constantly coming to the office or v/riting in
regard to the house and wanting to Enow if we can build for them,
but before attempting any building organization we want to Enow
just where we stand with reference to you.
You will remember our lawyer submitted a form of license
several months ago which was not quite in accordance with your
idea and you said you would send us one more to your liEing.
Yours truly,
.:. _ .
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TOWN AND COUNTRY LIFE: LITERATURE: ART: TRAVEL: FINANCIAL:
TOWN
COUNTRY
AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.
STUYVESANT COMPANY.
LONDON. II CHARING CROSS ROAD. W.C.
PARIS. 60 RUE CAUMARTIN.
Ur* Thomao A. Edison,
Orange, New Jersey
289 Fourth Ave. NewYoiuc. July r, ioos
Dear Sir:-
Xn reply to your Inquiry of July Gth in reference to the oovor pioture
on our issue of Juno 27th, this photograph was taken hy Thomas E. Harr of 180
Tremont Street, Bdoton, Hass. The estate is called "Bellefontaine" and belongs
to Hr. Giraud Foster, being his summer home at Lenox, Hass. It was originally
published in Town & Country with oevaral other photographs November 14, 1903,
Very truly yours,
NN* a
Editor.
TOWN & COUNTlff
per ^ •<£
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TELEPHONE 2.
NEW TOBK,_JhijLa* . 1908
Thomas A. Edison Esq.,
[o 'UC 3 L— r*
sir!- " %p£<*Z\
In my opinion I have found just the man for you
and you can hire him( (I doubt if any one else could) His ^flSmT’is
Ellingwood, Commander in Chief for MclCim, Mead & White in the^oonstruation
of the great Penn. Ry Station in Hew York City. He has complete charge
of all the men and works out every detail. Prom the long interview I have
had with him at my office to-day I believe that he is wonderfully and
peculiarly fitted for the position which you may now have in connection
with the dement house, and feel sure you will agree with me after you
have talked with him ten minutes. I can bring him out to see you any
day. If you are interested you can phone me making appointment for
interview with him at the laboratory.
Yours truly,
Dear Mr Edison
You will recall the little vlBlt paid you hy Mr/ Eels
and myself when over there a few months ago. You told me tkfc^ that
you wotild have a complete concrete house erected hy about t^ls time,
and that you would ^.et me Bee It. Is it completed*’ if so, I will
oend a friend to see it, and come myself when I reach America again in
October lifr November. I am reminded to write you now hy an article
is as English Socialist paper "The Clarion" , copy, of which ie being
sent you under separate cover.
I am also sending you an English magazine giving an account of
one of my experiments over here.
Believe me
Yours very truly
Electrical World
With which are incorporated The Electrical Engineer and Ihe American Electrician.
239 WEST 39T? STREET. NEW YORK.
. Edison, Esq.,
Edison Laboratories,
Now Jersoy.
Wt% dh~-« <5- ctt&.e&a-*** '0
X had lunoh today with Mr, Arthu^. Wiy^rbn&gpnd in/lyn-^
formity with his arrangement with you and w$hpiig request to me, ijhave "***1
prepared draft of a proposed letter for you to look oyer and if ggrSehble J
to make your own in connection witli the Electrical Exhibition. >ThiB let-
. ter simply rehearsos the faots in the case, but will make an offioial record
of the circumstanoos. If you will return it to me, I will take care of it.
I find that Mr* Williams is, like myself, tremendously interested in
the model of the cement house for artioans, and being somewhat familiar with
the model, I feel that with^pirOper oare and supervision it oan be convoyed
with perfect safety to ihe Garden and net up there with proper display. The
matter oan wait, of oourBe, until Mallory gets baok, but I shall be glad to
oooperate with Mallory and Williams in taking oare of this and arraying a
proper setting. My own judgment is that it will do a good deal to popularize
the idea, and in this respeot may make the exhibit a new starting point for
domastio architecture for the million. I understand that you aro leaving
for the West on Saturday, and trust that you will have a pleasant and interes¬
ting trip, and wills-return in the Pall all the better for the ohango.
By the way Mr. Williams mentioned to me your suggestion as to an
eleotrochemioal section, which X think is admirable, and I am going to" get
Dr. Roeber of bur eleotrochemioal paper whom you know, to arrange a general
exhibit along the lines you suggest. That bIbo may be made to serve as a new
starting point if worked up in the right way. a neat little exhibit oan be .
Mr* Edison - 2 -
glvon of a groat many prooessoB, reactions, oto., and with you I think
that people will surround that space all the time.
Believe mo, with regards,
Yours truly,
3. MARTIN
h‘;S
OECnnCALWOMD
230 WEST 30th 8TREET, NEW YORK
August 18, 1908,
H. F. Millar, Esq.,
Edison Laboratory ,
Orange, N. J.
Doar Mr. Miller:
I have your kind favor of August 17th and note oontonts.
I am also in reooipt therewith of the letter signed by Mr* Edison aB to
the Eleotrioal Show. I note what Mr. Edison says about the model of
yQfr/ttft/cfMt/ YMfaima-Vf'nrS "'
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" ' • -••4^^^' Sept. 15, 1908.
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Mr. Thoa. A. Edison, [c^,^ ^ &>***#
Orange, ». .((a;^
Dear Sir:- v ^
Some time ago wo talked over the matter o^il Soluble
Colors for your proposed oenent house. We have not heard from
you with regard to the probability of their being adopted, and
should like to very much.
Wo are in receipt of the enolosed circular whioh we
think may be of interest to you and onolose it.
per.
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[ENCLOSURE]
A. BENNETT
133 BROADWAY
' Subject:- GUARANTEED SALTSPBOOFING AND WATERPROOFING FORMULA.
Mess. Heller & Merz Co.,
88 Cliff St., City.
Sepu. 9, 1908.
nt u.t a+r!3Ula ?£ many years’ study and experimenting I have
feote^ a SaltaProofing and Waterproofing Formula^ which
I will dispose of at very reasonable terms.
Briefly my Formula presents a thin colorless liquid that
B^To£oteST+°-ia de?th of V4 t0 V2 inoh. and does not film on the
surface. It is water, acid and alkali proof.
i*» , , _i makes an impervious surfaoe over which any kind of Oil
Paint, Enamel. Water Color, Kalsomine and Wall Paper can be applied
without fear of Stain or peeling.. It has no equal as a sizeingcoat .
It thoroughly waterproofs Concrete, Cement, Briok and Stone Walls.
_ ,, ^ Prevents Cemsni_Fla2£s from dusting and any stains can
be easily wiped up as they cannot penetrate.
It cost to manufacture around 22<
extra equipment to amount to anything,
i applied with a stiff brush (
;a_llon and require
is simple.
sprayed on. One gallon
sover on Cenisfl.t, Concrete and Briok from 100 to 150 ‘square feet,
i Plaster Walls from 250 to 400 square feet, according to nnrtmHv
400 square feet, according to porasity.
IVLs ^ onlX, k??wn remedy for salts, and far superior to
any Ceiling Varnish or Shellao at a much less cost, and is considered
by the trade cheap at $1.50 per gallon, p.
My only stipulation is that should you purchase Formula you
shall keep it a perfeot secret. I will sell you the Formula and give
you a written guarantee to refund money if it does not do the work
claimed for it. ,
Your communications in regard to this matter is earnestly
Faithfully yours,
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The North Jersey Paint Co.
Fadtory : Stewartsville, N. J.
Sales Office: St. James Building, Broadway and 26th Street
New York City
Sept. 23, 1908,
Mr. prank L. Dyer,
Edison Laboratory,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Mr. :Dyer:
SEi; !i4 i9U3
I beg herewith to hand you a letter from
Tooh Brothers, addressed to the North Jersey Paint Co.
relative to the trade name wider which, we are operating
our paint.
Will you kindly advise what reply to make
in the matter.
Yours very truly.
President.
[ATTACHMENT!
- xs-y-i
lock Bro tfiecs J
MANUFACTURERS and IMPORTERS
| Specialis-ts in.
'TECHNICAL PAINTS «* W
COLORS, VARNISHES VJ7|
RAW MATERIALS-** (dk
320 FIFTH AVENUE
hb
320 fifth avenue
N»wYo»iki
New York, Sept 21/08
North Jersey Paint Company
1133 B* way, City.
Dear Sirs: —
We note that you are advertising a material for waterproofing
cement under the name of Anhydrol, and we desire to inform you that
we have a material for similar purposes called "Anhydrosol" and this
name is a copyrighted name owned by us. Under the circumstances the word
Anhydrol clearly infringes on our registered word, and we respectfully
ask you to discontinue the use of the name Anhydrol.
Trusting to receive a favorable reply from you, we are
Yours truly,
Diet. MT-M
Toch Brothers
[ATTACHMENT]
ANHYj
0R
OL
1 Bbl. [50 gals.] ■
10 Gallon Can
$1.00 per gal.
1.10 “ “
□□
THE
NORTH JERSEY PAINT
COMPANY
STEWARTSVILLE, N. J.
ANHYDROL
LIQUID WATERPROOF¬
ING FOR CEMENT AND
CONCRETE SURFACES
[ATTACHMENT!
ANHYDROL ANHYDROL ANHYDROL
Sept. 24, 1908.
iieasrs
Ben tier
joh Bros . ,
320 Pifth Avo.,
How York.
Youi- letter of the 21at inst.', to the North Jersey
Paint Co., has been referred to mo for reply.
Kindly advise me hov,’ long the trade-mark "Auhydro|ol" haB
ben used by you and the specific material with which it has been
used, and particularly whether this material la a waterproofing
substanoo. Also advise me whether the word "Anhydrosol" has beet
registered by you as a trade-mark and when the registration ivaa
effected.
I am anxious to obtain all the facts in connection with tills
matter booause of the North Jersey' paint -Co. is infringing any
of your Rights it will be much better to settle the matter
ami oably than to resort to litigation.
Yours very truly,
FLTi/imi
General Counsel.
Jv^tbcfc* ia.
MANUFACTURERS *nd IMPORTERS
Specialists in.
TECHNICAL PAINTS-* wft
\V^ COLORS, VARNISHES V=<7)
RAW MATERIALS-*-*
320 FIFTH AVENUE \
urew Yorlc, Sept 25/08
Mr, Frank L Dyer, General Counsel,
North Jersey Paint On.,
Orange J II. J. .
Dear Sir; —
We are in receipt of your favor of the 24th inst., and thank
you for the spirit in which you address us. We are likev/ise anxious to
avoid any litigation and therefore wrote you without consulting any law¬
yer.
The word "Anhydrosol" was registered on the 12th day of August, 1905
as a water and stain proofing liquid. It is largely used for waterproof¬
ing cement, concrete, brick and stone. We shall he very glad to have
your views concerning this matter, and remain
Yours truly,
Diet, m -if.
Toch prother*
Sept. 26, 1908.
Messrs. Toch Bros.,
320 Pifth Avc. ,
New York City.
Gentlemen^
Your favor of the 26th inat. is reoeivod, and I thank
you for the same.. r am ordering to-day from tho Patent Offioe
a copy of the oertifioate of registration and vrtien received I will
again take the matter up with you. I am sure that everything
can he settled satisfactorily.
Yours very truly *
General Counsel.
MVJJOHVr bHOMOOUVbH COWbVHA
IXD/CY/Hf
Sept. 25, 1908.
Messrs. Bacon & Milana,
908 0 St.,
Washington,
Gentlemen:
D. 0.
I am informed that on August IE, 1905, Messrs. To oh
Bros., at, Now York, registered the word “Anhydroool" as a trade¬
mark far a water and stain proofing .liquid. Please send' me a copy
of the certificate immediately.
Yours very truly,
ped/iww
General Counsel.
Mr. Edison: • 9/29/08.
The North Jersey Paint Co. has adopted as a trade-mark the
word "Anhydrol". Objection has been made by Toch BroB. of New
York, who, you will see, on December 26, 1905, registered the word
"AnhydroBOl" as a trade-mark for a water-proofing liquid. It seems
to me that our trade-mark is too dose to theirs and that it
would be much better to change now than have to change later
when our product becomes better known. What word would you
suggest? A very common practice at the present time is to
adopt words whioh are contractions of the corporate name. Por
instanoe, in the present case the word "Nopaco" might be used..
How does that strike you?
SliD/lWW
P. I. D.
[FROM F. K. DOLBEER]
Mr. 0, J. Schmol.'ser,
o/o Cchraelzer Arras Co.,
Kansas City, Mo.
• Dear Sir:-
Sept. 29,1908.
I have before mo a memorandum signed by
Mr. -Edison, who makes a personal request that I ask one of our
jobbers in Kansan City to obtain photographo of No. 3434 Pero
Boulevard, near 35th St.
It appears that while Mr. ISdiBon was in KanBaa City he
saw this. beautiful home, v/hick he belioves is just adapted for his
plan of ousting houses of concrete, and he io very desirous of
- obtaining photographs showing the different views of this particular
house, and in order to make sure that, he lias the right house
(as lie is somewhat doubtful about the number), he states that this
particular one has a red tile roof. .
I dislike very rauoh to bother you in tills matter, hut
I am also desirous of obtaining what Mr. Edison wants, aid in this
connection Z would respectfully suggest that you seoure some local
photographer to take different views of this house, sending the '
copies direct, to me with a hill covering 00Bt of same, and I will
T5e" pleased. to give it my very prompt attention. /
Thanking you in advanoe for your favorable consideration
of this matter, I beg to remain
’ Very truly yours.
Sept. 29,1908.
Mr. Thomas A. Siison,
Orange, if. J.
Dear Sir:-
Your memorandum of yesterday received,
and in- this connection would state that I am today writing Mr.
0. .1. Spbmelaer of the Schraelaer Anna Co., Kansas City, Mo., and
fuel confident that he will obtain what you desire, as he is not
only a great admirer of yourself hut is also very friendly to the
National Company.
I will advino you at the earliest moment regarding this,
Very truly yours,
/Cwsas Cirr.ftlo. Oct. 3, 1908
Mr. F. K. Dolbeer ,
o/o National Phonograph Oo.
10 Fifth Ave. New York.
Dear Sir:-
|)¥CEIYETpj
vi/ocT g
Kns
This v/riter begs to acknowledge receipt- of yours of the
29th ult.and it will be ray pleasiire to exeoute the commission Hr.
Edison asks for. I regret to say however that he has not given
me the correct name. Itthink he refers to the Boulevard called
the Paseo , whereas it is given in your letter as "Pero".
I think , however, i know the house he refers to and
am going to have a picture of it taken and will forward it to you
for his further inspection.
I very much regret that I did not meet Mr. Edison while
he was in Kansas City, for it would have been an extrem pleasure
to me to have shown him more of our Oity and our Boulevards.
You will hear from me again in a few dayB .
Kansas C/rr.Mo. o0t . 14, 1908
Mr. P. K. Dolbeer,
#10 Fifth Ave. New York.
My dear Sir:-
4
fpSSIYE'
'i(0CT 6 1908 V
I take pleasure in mailing to you, under separate
cover, the photos of the house at 3434 PaBeo, which I trust is
the house Mr. Edison had in mind. I am very glad to he of this
service to him, and await your further commands.
Yours very truly,
C
(COPY)
October 15, 1908.
Mr. V/, S., Mallory,
Pres. North Jersey Paint Co.
Stewartsville, N.J.
Dear Mr. Mallory: -
Yours of October 13th with regard to the
trade-mark "AHYDROSOI" has been received. The Patent Office
fee on a trade-mark application is $10.00 and I believe the
common charge made by patent attorneys for- taking out such a mark
is $25.00, including Office Pee.
I do not understand from your letter whether
Toch Bros, have registered their trade-mark "AHYDROSOI" or not.
Of course if they have not registered it and are not useing it,
they have no right which they could sell. A right to a trade-mark
depends upon its use.. However, if you can purchase whatever rights
they have for $25.00 or thereabouts, it may possibly dispose of
troublesome opposition on their part as the two marks "AHYDROSOI"
and "ANHYPROI" are so nearly alike that there can scarcely fail to
be a conflict between them.
If you decide to purchase this mark and will
give me full data concerning it, I would be glad; to prepare an
assignment.
Very truly yours,
HHD/ilStJ.
General Counsel.
SCULLIN -GALLAGHER IRON & STEEL COMPANY
HIGH GRADE STEEL CASTINGS
Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
Orange, Hew Jersey.
Denver, Colorado,
November 6, 1908.
Dear Sir:-
Your article some days ago with reference to cement
buildings states you have been able to pour the cement
without finding air or shrinkage holes.- As this is the most
difficult proposition in pouring steel castings, have you ever
given a thought as to how the question of blow holes in cast
steel might be overcome?
Very respectfully yours,
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Relative your experiments in concrete house construction.
I have been deeply interested in the reports of your
experiments, as for some years I have been working and studying
somewhat along the same lines; I enclose circular describing
my model which took first prize at Tuberculosis Congress lately
held here. fin,, , .
"Ji <d Muy
It would be of great assistance to me could I see the
results of your experiments, and I am writing to know if you
could extend to me the courtesy of inspecting same.
I shall be in New York the last three days of next week
and could visit your laboratories Saturday, November 28, at
about 10 A.K.
Hoping that I may enjoy this great privilege,
Very truly yours,
[ENCLOSURE]
Collapscablc Steel Forms
Are now being designed and the
first house will be constructed
shortly in Washington. Exterior
of rough concrete, appearance sim¬
ilar to pebble dash. No decoration
except window boxes for flowers,
cost less than $10.00.
Associations should be formed
to build sanitary suburbs near all
large cities with houses of this
H
If interested, cut this off and
mail to
Milton Dana Morrill, Architect
405 Corcoran Building
Washington, D. C.
Please send illustrated description of
model concrete house.
Name
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PRIZE HOUSE
Costs Less Than Wood
A THOUSAND HOUSES MAY BE
CAST FROM ONE SET OF MOULDS
j Model made by D. J. L1X
MILTON DANA MORRILL, Architect
j. Awarded 1st Cold Medal
by International Congress
j on Tuberculosis,. held in
Washington, D. C., 1908
; THIS DESIGN TO COST *1200
[ENCLOSURE]
Use Hose to Clean House.
To dean a room, remove furni¬
ture, apply hose to walls, ceilings
and composition floors, which are
drained to plugged tile spouts, dis¬
charging on lawn.
A ro Wood to Shrink or Rot.
No insurance, no repairs, no paint¬
ing, no shelter for vermin or in¬
sects, no corners for dirt, coves
everywhere, all fixtures of con¬
crete, bracketed from wall for ease
in sweeping.
Waste Heat from Cooking Range
Warms the House.
No handling of Coal or Ashes.
Coal is hoisted by simple chain
block, dumped through coal hole
on roof into large pocket; auto¬
matic gravity feed to stove which
combines in one concrete fixture —
range, house heater, gas stove and
hot water. Ashes drop from fire
box into cans, which are removed
from outside.
Did you know that one-third of
your heat is wasted to warm the
cellar which you wish to have
cold?
Arranged for use as fresh air
closet (no ice in mild and cold
weather), also arranged to flush
out with hose.
Garbage disposal
Cast iron chamber in smoke flue
where waste is dried then dumped
by use of damper into fire box.
Note simplicity of plan and ease
of housekeeping.
Entire building is of concrete,
windows are of cast iron of case¬
ment type, with transoms over to
regulate ventilation easily.
Walls hollow to prevent damp¬
ness; air circulation openings un¬
der roof slab; fireplaces in all
rooms, flues connect around smoke
pipe for natural ventilation.
Standard Unit Form.
The entire house is cast— walls,
floor construction, petitions, etc.,
are of re-enforced concrete; win¬
dows arc of cast iron, when once
moulds are made only cost is du¬
plication.
Unit forms allow change of ar¬
rangement and variety in plan and
design.
Roof garden and sun room form
out of doors sleeping space, where,
by use of movable screens, each
member of family may have pri¬
vate compartment.
CSJbama&Ll Ccfttan.
THe Edison Portland Cement Co.
Telegraph, Freight and Passenger Station, NEW VILLAGE, N. J.
■si. STEWARTSVILLE, N. J.
November 24, 1908.
Dear Mr. Edison:
Herewith find letter from Mr. Riege,
together with a copy of a few suggestions which might be
incorporated in the answer.
Very truly,
. 5 908
[ENCLOSURE]
StolLWERCK
Stamford, Conn. November 20th, 1908
H. F . Miller, Seor.
Edison Laboratory, Orange, IT. J
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I have your favor of the 16th replying to my inquiry
of the 12th and have this morning received a letter from the
North Jersey Paint Co., stating there had bean some impurities
in the last batch which they had prepared. |
I would, however, like to have from Mr. Edison's
laboratory a statement confirming the article which appeared A
in the Engineering Magazine, that is, giving the characterise v
tics of Anhydrol, the cost per square foot applied to porous^-'
cement blocks and whether you consider Anhydrol an absolute
and permanent waterproofing on cement blocks, and length of test
or exposure which it has already been given.
We consider such a statement from Mr. Edison's labor¬
atory would make it unnecessary for us to inquire any further
about Anhydrol or of the waterproofing of our factory walls,
containing approximately *60,000 square feet of surface, while
in the absence of such confirmationwe would feel the necessity
of making a test ourselves, which would cover a long period of
We therefore hope you will be able to give us the
information desired.
ER/J
Very truly yours.
Wu, 23 1908
[ENCLOSURE]
Manufacturers of Soaps
. Edison,
Orange, N.J
'"Dear Mr. Edison: A*
You may recall about six months ago you\A
kindly gave me an interview, regarding your construc¬
tion of concrete dwelling houses. It was the occasion
when Mrs. Pels and I visited your works.
You said at that time that you expected to
have a oomplete building ready to exhibit some time dur¬
ing the Summer. I have Just come over from England.
May I hear from you on the subject, as per¬
haps you may recall I am greatly interested in building
small houses.
Believe me, Dear Sir,
Jfours very truly.
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be finished and the first house cast. If successful I will use the forms
to cast a few sample houses, to prove lion, with a few simple additions
to the iron forms, a great many variations in the type of the houses can
be made. For instance, by adding or subtracting iron sections, tile-
house can be made smaller and cheaper. By adding sections, the num¬
ber of stories can be increased, or it can be widened or lengthened. By
a few additional forms, the whole appearance of the veranda can be
changed. A contracting company having the smallest unit possible to
permit of cheap and rapid production, must have six sets of moulds
with the other necessary machinery. From these iron sections almost
any variation in the size, appearance and ornamentation of the row of
houses can be made. The concrete could be tinted with any kind of
color, but the general type would be the same. The units might be
divided and thereby three complete moulds for one type of house and
three sets for an entirely different type, would be secured.
This scheme of constructing houses cheaply and in quantities docs
not permit of the building of one house at a time, for the reason that
the moulds are heavy. The machinery necessary to handle the materials
as well as for the erection of the iron moulds is large and expensive.
The hardening of the cement requires four days. While one house
was hardening the men would either have to remain idle or be laid
off during this period, and this would not be practicable; whereas, if
the full unit of a minimum of six sets of moulds, and machinery was
in operation, the thirty-seven men necessary could be employed con¬
tinuously erecting, pouring, and removing forms from one lot to another,
at a minimum of expense.
Houses of the type shown in the model, I believe, can be built for
$1200 each, in any community where material excavated from tile cellar
is sand and gravel, so it can be used. If the sand and gravel must be
obtained elsewhere, the cost will be much more. A change in the
forms can be made so that a house can be built that will look just as
well, but smaller, at a less cost. On the other hand, by addition to
the forms, houses costing $2,000 or $3,000 or more can be built.
To give a rough idea of the cost, I estimate that six sets of iron
forms for the house I am to build will cost about $25,000 per bouse —
a total cost of $150,000. The cranes, traction steam shovel, conveying
and hoisting machinery, I estimate will cost $25,000 additional, making
a total investment of $175,000. With this machinery twelve (12)
houses per month can be made every month in the year, with the aid
of one foreman, one engineer, and thirty-five (35) laborers. This
gives one hundred and forty-four (144.) houses per year for the unit.
If I can prove this, then the labor cost per bouse will not exceed $150
If we allow 6% interest and 4% for breakage on the cost of the
forms, and 6% interest with 15% depreciation on machinery, the yearly
expense will be about $20,000. Dividing this into the 144 houses built
in the year, gives approximately $140 per house, for cost of moulds and
machinery. 220 barrels of cement will be mixed with the sand and
gravel excavated from the cellar, and will provide sufficient material
to build the house. Allowing $1.40 per barrel for cement, adds a
further sum of $310. The reinforcing steel rods cost $123; and the
heating system and bath $150.. These items total $875. This leaves
a margin between that sum and $1200 of $325 to provide for doors,
windows, etc., painting, and the correction of any possible defects.
If the houses are smaller and 225 can be built in the year for the
same investment and labor, it will, from the above data, be easy to
approximate the cost per house ; the same is true with larger size houses.
These houses will be waterproof and dampproof. The roofs, after
the forms arc removed, are painted with a paint made of cement tinted
with red oxide of iron, which hardens and never deteriorates. Cement can
be tinted to any color and any shade of that color, and the inside or
outside can be painted, and is permanent. The cost of the paint for
the whole house, inside and out, including roof, will be very small.
Should the experiment succeed, I will, without cost, furnish all
plans, give full license to reputable building corporations without cost,
as I am not making these experiments for money.
I think the age of concrete has started and I believe I can prove
that the most beautiful houses that our architects can conceive, can be
cast in one operation in iron forms at a cost, which by comparison with
present methods, will be surprising. Then even the poorest man among
us will be enabled to own a home of his own — a home that will last
for centuries with no cost for insurance or repairs, and be as exchange¬
able for other property as a United States Bond.
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